Bricked my BD-RW

[Blues]

I have a Plex server and rip my movies so I can have it all in one place. I recently picked up a 4K movie and found that my drive doesn't support w/o flashing a different firmware to my drive. I tried and now my drive won't read any CD, DVD, or Blu-Ray so anyone here have any insight to how I might fix my drive and at least return it to original working order. I really hate to buy a new drive or harvest the one from my other PC but I probably will if I can't get the firmware on one of these that will enable 4K ripping.

 

[Blues]

Oh meant to add the drive is WH14NS40

 

[phaZed]

Firmware flashes gone wrong for such things will usually mean you would need to pull the BIOS/Firmware chip and flash it manually. Prob not worth the effort, tools and time as opposed to a replacement drive - unless you already have all that is needed to do that.

 

[Blues]

Worth asking. Not sure about replacing the drive I would probably opt for one that has the needed firmware which are not cheap. I might just harvest the WH16NS40 on my other PC and let that one run w/o optical drive. Don’t think I will attempt to flash it until I have another backup or something.

 

[nlinecomputers]

You needed a door stop anyway.

Can you flash the original firmware back? If not it’s a true hard brick.

 

[Blues]

I have tried but also it doesn't look like any firmware is actually taking so part of why I say it is bricked.

 

[Blues]

I think my other PC is about to become discless and that way I can continue ripping any non 4K content and at some point pick up a pre-flashed likely USB based drive for my 4K ripping needs and general occasional need for drive on discless systems.

 

[alexsmith2709]

If you flashed it using the windows flashing tool, you could try with the dosflash tool. https://forum.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19748 contains some links which may be helpful you. It seems you need to find the original firmware (v1.00 at a guess or whichever the first version is) and use dosflash

 

[Blues]

I got most of my initial information from their boards but couldn't find that article which is basically what I was looking for after it initially seemed to have been bricked.