Bricked LG BU40N

[Nex122]

Hello
I recently bought a bargain Verbatim 43888, with LG BU40N drive, unfortunately it is bricked, how can I fix it ?

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Thanks

[MartyMcNuts]

Hello
I recently bought a bargain Verbatim 43888, with LG BU40N drive, unfortunately it is bricked, how can I fix it ?

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Thanks

What did you do to it??

You could try using the old ASUS flasher and flash BU40N 1.03-MK firmware. It doesn't do any checks whatsoever so should be able to flash the firmware. viewtopic.php?p=70766#p70766

[Billycar11]

im also curious what you did
but encrypted fw makes recovery much more complicated it seems
modified lg flasher can also unbrick https://drive.google.com/file/d/102V7DU ... drive_link

[Nex122]

I bought the used bricked drive. I tried to upload through Flasher asus, and LG, unfortunately I got errors popping up.

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What else can I do with it ? Thanks for your help.

[MartyMcNuts]

I bought the used bricked drive. I tried to upload through Flasher asus, and LG, unfortunately I got errors popping up.
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What else can I do with it ? Thanks for your help.

Give it back to whomever you bought it from.

[Nex122]

I was able to fix with this firmware, and now it works as expected (I bought this drive for 10 bucks)

https://www.lg.com/us/support/product/lg-BU40N.AVAA10B

[Billycar11]

I was able to fix with this firmware, and now it works as expected (I bought this drive for 10 bucks)

https://www.lg.com/us/support/product/lg-BU40N.AVAA10B

How did you fix it official LG flasher?

[Nex122]

I installed first version 1.04 and then 1.05.

[Billycar11]

I installed first version 1.04 and then 1.05.

but using what flashers?