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WH16NS40 showing up as an HP drive in safe mode

Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2025 4:28 pm
by vasir13
Good day,

Purchased a “new” WH16NS40 from ebay. Prod date is 24-04-26, I followed the Ultimate UHD guide and saw that the original installed firmware was version 1.01.
Flashing was successful bur the drive is booting into safe boot. The drive is safe mode with name “hp_BD-RE__HB40N_BOOT”.
Tried to revert back to the original firmware with no success.
Why the flashed boot firmware is showing an HP drive?
Any idea how I can fix this?

Re: WH16NS40 showing up as an HP drive in safe mode

Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2025 9:34 pm
by Billycar11
sorry man its a fake seeing alot of these now
they resticker it to look new but that drive is likely older than 2015
see recovery section at bottom of guide see below

Re: WH16NS40 showing up as an HP drive in safe mode

Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2025 11:26 pm
by vasir13
Thank you Bill.