Replace internal SATA Drive or Reinstall firmware to perfect Factory Default of Iomega Home Media Network Hard Drive ((MHNDHD) only

Spanish keywords: Reemplazar disco duro SATA Interno o Reinstalar el firmware para un Reseteo de Fábrica perfecto del equipo NAS Iomega Home Media Network Hard Drive

Don't try this on model "Cloud Edition" it will not work or HMND2
Perfect for: Iomega Home Media Network Hard Drive
Source: http://iomega.nas-central.org/wiki/Installing_firmware_on_a_new_disk_(Home_Media)

You could use this procedure if you forgot the local password of the managment console, you have backed up all your files or if you want to install a bigger drive on the NAS

1. You will need a DVD or USB with Ubuntu Desktop or a Laptop or Desktop with Ubuntu Installed
2. In this case i'll use Ubuntu DVDR
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop#
3. Install the new SATA Drive on the desktop
4. boot and start Ubuntu Live
5. open a terminal (ctrl+alt+t)
6. reset Live cd root password with

#sudo passwd root
(follow screen instructions to reset root password)
5. now you can use root
#su
(use the root password when it prompts)
6) follow the next steps exactly as it shown.  In the scenario you have 1 principal disk (your Windows, Linux, Ubuntu disk) and the new sata disk (be careful to not erase your own laptop or desktop disk)

7)

Find device name

Find the device name of the disk:

cat /proc/partitions

You can recognize the disk by it's size. (The size is given in 'blocks', which is 1 KiB)

I'll assume the disk is sdb for the rest of the story.

Collect files

Download mbr+uboot+kernel.gz and sda1-2064.tgz here.

Become root

You'll need to have root rights to do the next steps. In Ubuntu or Knoppix you can get these by executing

sudo su

In most other flavors you just execute

su

ESTO ES DESTRUCTIVO OJO EN NO EQUIVOCARTE DE /dev

MBR, uBoot and kernel

Write mbr+uboot+kernel.gz to disk:

gzip -dc /full/path/to/mbr+uboot+kernel.gz | dd of=/dev/sdb

(when using sudo for root things, this should be

gzip -dc /full/path/to/mbr+uboot+kernel.gz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdb

)

Change data partition size

Use fdisk to remove partition 2, and add it again. Primary partition. (your disk will have a different size than the mbr donor).
fdisk is started by:

fdisk /dev/sdb

and use 'm' to get further help.
Change the partitiontype of partition 2 to fd.
Write partitiontable and exit fdisk.

SENCILLO SOLO METE LOS CARACTERES Y LOS ENTER COMO SE DESCRIBE

For the lazy people, the exact keystrokes in fdisk are:

d{enter}2{enter}	(delete partition 2)
n{enter}p{enter}2{enter}	(create new, primary, partition at slot 2)
{enter}{enter}	(default start- end endsector)
t{enter}2{enter}fd{enter}	(change type of partition 2 to 'fd')
w{enter}	(write changes and exit)

System partition

Format partition 1:

mke2fs -j /dev/sdb1

Create a mountpoint, and mount partition 1:

mkdir /tmp/sdb1
mount /dev/sdb1 /tmp/sdb1

Install the rootfs:

cd /tmp/sdb1
tar -xzf /full/path/to/sda1-2064.tgz

The last command might give a lot of errors about unresolved symlinks in /etc/ssl/. This is normal. The symlinks point to files which really don't exist

Data partition

Format partition 2:

mkfs -t xfs /dev/sdb2

It is possible that you have to install xfsprogs first. On Ubuntu or Debian:

apt-get install xfsprogs

Ready

When you put this disk in your Home Media, it should work.

On a Home Media the MAC address is stored on the disk. For this disk image it's 00:d0:b8:09:68:1e. If you want to change it, you'll have to edit /etc/modules.

DHCP must be enabled on the network

use http://assigneddhcpaddress to reconfigura the Iomega drive

EXITOS