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I’ll have to look into them, since I don’t really know the first thing about them. I’m in the US, if there’s any models you would recommend in particular, 5.25” or slim type, I’m open to that.

I think that was the actually the one thing I didn't try, was the asus flasher. But, writing media is what spawned this whole mess. I would like to burn some 50GB dual layer discs, and I've only heard of all the lovely firmware issues with them things. I thought maybe I could use the LG update to br...

UPDATE: So I was able to partially recover the drive using dosflash...I was able to flash the 1.03MK firmware with it. It now shows up in MakeMKV with LibreDrive enabled, however it will not read a disc, it behaves as if there's nothing in the drive. The serial number is also blank in MakeMKV, and I...

Howdy, I'll just get down to it, I don't know what came over me, but I used an official LG firmware update package on my BU40N, and for some reason that rendered my drive completely unusable. The disk tray won't even open, but it does show up, just with a 'BOOT' suffix. I tried to use the SDF tool t...