LG WH16NS40 Made in 11.20.2014,now what??

[Sithtiger]

Hi, I decided to upgrade my LG WH16NS40 from firmware 1.02 to 1.05 and now it doesn't read any discs in Windows 10. I saw or read to make sure the drive was made in 2015 or later. This is made in 11.20.2014. How can I downgrade the firmware back down to 1.02? Can I still downgrade it, am I screwed or is there another way?

Thanks so much !!!

[Billycar11]

Hi, I decided to upgrade my LG WH16NS40 from firmware 1.02 to 1.05 and now it doesn't read any discs in Windows 10. I saw or read to make sure the drive was made in 2015 or later. This is made in 11.20.2014. How can I downgrade the firmware back down to 1.02? Can I still downgrade it, am I screwed or is there another way?

Thanks so much !!!

Read recovery section linked below

But the short story is if your bios does not have ide mode your done for

[Sithtiger]

Thanks, here is a pic of the model number & the sticker on the drive itself. Let me know if this can be flashed. From what it says about the date, I'm thinking no, but it can't hurt to double-check. It says SATA on it, but what is IDE BIOS mode and how do I know if it has it.
Thanks!

[Billycar11]

No it can't be flashed and work
Ide is a sata mode

[Sithtiger]

Yeah, I thought IDE used Master/Slave physical layout but wasn't sure there was something I'd missed. Hopefully, LG will do something for me. That would sure go a long way to getting a repeat customer.

Thanks, If they do anything, I'm going to assume they're going to give me a refurbished drive (most likely) or a new one, unlikely, but EVGA at least used to be like that (for GPUs) and that made me a customer of only EVGA GPUs, even though they weren't the best quality. They would many times upgrade you to a better card if it wasn't still in production. Sometimes you'd get a refurbished card if they couldn't fix yours. This was when GPUs had lifetime warranties. I told my wife that's not gonna last. Anyway, thanks for helping.

Either way, I'll be getting a newer one, but I'm not going to upgrading the firmware in those drives ever!

[Billycar11]

You can recover it yourself if you have a PC that has ide mode
Lg likely won't do anything for you the drive is 7 ish years
You can buy your next one from me preflashed and tested so you can do UHD and don't worry about it getting bricked

See link below

[Sithtiger]

Yeah, I don't think they'll do anything either. Thanks for the recommendation!