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Resurrecting WH14NS40
Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2025 6:32 pm
by vasir13
Good day,
Purchased a WH14NS40 from Ebay. Of course it turned out to be a fake one. This drive is a rebranded 16NS40 with board version of 2011-11-17 JB7.
Now the jerks at EBay are using a plastic plate that covers the board revision and “warranty” tapes on all 4 screws on the back plate. So in order to find out the board revision, one needs to open the drive to pull the fake plastic plate and finally view the board revision. Doing so will “invalidate” the so called warranty.
Anyways I have included 2 pictures that hopefully can help someone in the future detecting fake drives. On the board sticker is advertised as a 2017 drive but then flashing a pre 2015 drive will not be successful. The drive is a zombie, meaning that the hardware is detected by the OS but cannot read any DVD or BL discs.
Tried to follow few links makemkv links such as
viewtopic.php?t=19748
and
viewtopic.php?t=26471
I tried to follow the hexedit path but directions are very vague.
I am booting using the WinPE path, the drive is responsive but can not use the EEPROM_Data_Mover since it is giving me invalid file name error or some other errors.
Is there a better direction on how to use hexedit (meaning address locations to be changed).
I do not want to junk this drive but already wasted many hours trying to resurrect it.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
Re: Resurrecting WH14NS40
Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2025 9:14 pm
by Billycar11
urf what scumbags
see the recovery section of the guide below and follow the old dos flash video thats says useful for recovery
Re: Resurrecting WH14NS40
Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2025 10:49 pm
by MartyMcNuts
vasir13 wrote: ↑Sun Nov 09, 2025 6:32 pm
Good day,
Purchased a WH14NS40 from Ebay. Of course it turned out to be a fake one. This drive is a rebranded 16NS40 with board version of 2011-11-17 JB7.
Now the jerks at EBay are using a plastic plate that covers the board revision and “warranty” tapes on all 4 screws on the back plate. So in order to find out the board revision, one needs to open the drive to pull the fake plastic plate and finally view the board revision. Doing so will “invalidate” the so called warranty.
Anyways I have included 2 pictures that hopefully can help someone in the future detecting fake drives. On the board sticker is advertised as a 2017 drive but then flashing a pre 2015 drive will not be successful. The drive is a zombie, meaning that the hardware is detected by the OS but cannot read any DVD or BL discs.
Tried to follow few links makemkv links such as
viewtopic.php?t=19748
and
viewtopic.php?t=26471
I tried to follow the hexedit path but directions are very vague.
I am booting using the WinPE path, the drive is responsive but can not use the EEPROM_Data_Mover since it is giving me invalid file name error or some other errors.
Is there a better direction on how to use hexedit (meaning address locations to be changed).
I do not want to junk this drive but already wasted many hours trying to resurrect it.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
In future, don't buy used drives.
Re: Resurrecting WH14NS40
Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2025 11:06 pm
by vasir13
MartyMcNuts wrote: ↑Sun Nov 09, 2025 10:49 pm
vasir13 wrote: ↑Sun Nov 09, 2025 6:32 pm
Good day,
Purchased a WH14NS40 from Ebay. Of course it turned out to be a fake one. This drive is a rebranded 16NS40 with board version of 2011-11-17 JB7.
Now the jerks at EBay are using a plastic plate that covers the board revision and “warranty” tapes on all 4 screws on the back plate. So in order to find out the board revision, one needs to open the drive to pull the fake plastic plate and finally view the board revision. Doing so will “invalidate” the so called warranty.
Anyways I have included 2 pictures that hopefully can help someone in the future detecting fake drives. On the board sticker is advertised as a 2017 drive but then flashing a pre 2015 drive will not be successful. The drive is a zombie, meaning that the hardware is detected by the OS but cannot read any DVD or BL discs.
Tried to follow few links makemkv links such as
viewtopic.php?t=19748
and
viewtopic.php?t=26471
I tried to follow the hexedit path but directions are very vague.
I am booting using the WinPE path, the drive is responsive but can not use the EEPROM_Data_Mover since it is giving me invalid file name error or some other errors.
Is there a better direction on how to use hexedit (meaning address locations to be changed).
I do not want to junk this drive but already wasted many hours trying to resurrect it.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
In future, don't buy used drives.
It was sold as new. Got my money refunded but still a pain.
Re: Resurrecting WH14NS40
Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2025 11:07 pm
by vasir13
Billycar11 wrote: ↑Sun Nov 09, 2025 9:14 pm
urf what scumbags
see the recovery section of the guide below and follow the old dos flash video thats says useful for recovery
Tried that already, does not work for me for some reason. Thus asking about manual editing of the firmware.
Re: Resurrecting WH14NS40
Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2025 2:57 am
by Billycar11
vasir13 wrote: ↑Sun Nov 09, 2025 11:07 pm
Billycar11 wrote: ↑Sun Nov 09, 2025 9:14 pm
urf what scumbags
see the recovery section of the guide below and follow the old dos flash video thats says useful for recovery
Tried that already, does not work for me for some reason. Thus asking about manual editing of the firmware.
it does work i have done it you are just missing or misinterpreting a step