www.makemkv.com

So, I decided to give it a go and flash my own drive. You can see the drive (which is attached via USB enclosure) on the attached screen shots.

I'm on macOS (M1 chip) but have access to a Windows 10 PC and plan to use this viewtopic.php?f=16&t=22896

I'm totally committed and know I can brick my drive so:

1. Can you guys/girls point me to the correct firmware to flash it with?
2. Anything I should be aware of before I go?

Thanks

Flash the 1.04 from BU40N-Main in the firmware pack.

This one?
New! The all you need firmware pack: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HRnbXi ... sp=sharing

and this one:
HL-DT-ST-BD-RE_BU40N-1.03-NM00000-211810241934.bin

Will this work with DVDFab, I want to be able to make Iso's

Flash the 1.04MK with the SDFtool Flasher v1.3.3 and the the 1.00DE to work with DVDFab

https://www.mediafire.com/file/8zujcivq ... 9.zip/file
https://www.mediafire.com/file/6ndv5i14 ... k.zip/file
https://www.makemkv.com/download/mk-fir ... 200720.zip

So, I should flash it directly from 1.04 to 1.00DE for it to work on both MakeMKV and DVD Fab?

Using this:
DE_LG_BU40N_1.00.bin

Again, thanks!

outland wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 05, 2022 11:42 am

So, I should flash it directly from 1.04 to 1.00DE for it to work on both MakeMKV and DVD Fab?

Using this:
DE_LG_BU40N_1.00.bin

Again, thanks!

No

Again, thanks for the reply.

Also, I understand why people would want to buy a pre-flashed drive. For many reasons not what I want to do. So just asking for best advise before flashing

So, why no?

Please flash first 1.04 or 1.03 MK. Only afterwards flash it again to downgrade to 1.00

So first to this one from mk-firmware-pack-20200720:
HL-DT-ST-BD-RE_BU40N-1.04-NM00500-212005061142.bin

Then if I want DVDFab:
DE_LG_BU40N_1.00.bin

Yes

Got this far and everything looks as it is supposed to but nothing happens when I press "Start"

Any ideas?

outland wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 06, 2022 7:19 am

Got this far and everything looks as it is supposed to but nothing happens when I press "Start"

Any ideas?

try closing makemkv
if still no just use the command line from my guide

Ok, did not do the trick so this command:
makemkvcon64.exe f --all-yes -d D: rawflash enc -i C:\HL-DT-ST-BD-RE_BU40N-1.04-NM00500-212005061142.bin

Again, thanks!

...and just run it from Windows PowerShell?