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I have tried a few steps to flash my drive and follow the guide but I can assume I flashed the wrong drive and my drive won’t open

Can someone help me recover the drive and then which is the right one to flash it to

I am hoping the drive can be salvaged

This is the drive I am using and the screen I am at

Any help would be greatly appreciated



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I assume you have the 5,25" Buffalo drive and not the slim USB drive and you've flashed the slim drive firmware to 5,25" drive

I 've don't see yet a 4K flashable Buffalo enclosure which contains a 5,25" LG, so I don't think the recovery mode will help.

Please show picture of the front panel.

Good afternoon


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As I thought. This is an older LG drive which can't be flashed and with the flash to the BU40N the drive is bricked, I think.

You can try open the enclosure for the look to the sticker to find out the drive modell. Then try a flash with the native LG flashing tool for this modell if this tool is available.

The drive is not “enclosed” it’s a complete external drive


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It's a LG drive in a Buffalo enclosure.

Check the third post here, perhaps it will help to get the drive out --> viewtopic.php?t=41293

A few steps back: Do you know which drive the MakeMKV drive information has shown before the BU40N flash?

No I don’t


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Ok, there're two possibilities in my opinion:

1. Get the drive out for a look to the modell. The save way.

or

2. Blind trying the recovery mode with the SDF Flasher. In the first drop down menu use the BU40N firmware from the first flash and in the second drop down use the WH16NS60 1.02MK. In the web I found information about someone who found a BH16NS58 in the Buffalo BRXL-16U3. That drive is flashable.

For the WH option is for example LG internal?

That’s where I get confused


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zittrig wrote:Ok, there're two possibilities in my opinion:

1. Get the drive out for a look to the modell. The save way.

or

2. Blind trying the recovery mode with the SDF Flasher. In the first drop down menu use the BU40N firmware from the first flash and in the second drop down use the WH16NS60 1.02MK. In the web I found information about someone who found a BH16NS58 in the Buffalo BRXL-16U3. That drive is flashable.

Whenever I try flash it all I get is a command error message

I truly don’t know how to flash it back but I truly appreciate your help


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Sluggo080976 wrote: Sun Apr 26, 2026 10:13 pm

zittrig wrote:Ok, there're two possibilities in my opinion:

1. Get the drive out for a look to the modell. The save way.

or

2. Blind trying the recovery mode with the SDF Flasher. In the first drop down menu use the BU40N firmware from the first flash and in the second drop down use the WH16NS60 1.02MK. In the web I found information about someone who found a BH16NS58 in the Buffalo BRXL-16U3. That drive is flashable.

Whenever I try flash it all I get is a command error message

I truly don’t know how to flash it back but I truly appreciate your help


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If you had of used my all you need firmware pack available from the same post where SDFtool flasher is downloaded from you would not have this issue as the firmware is split into slim and desktop folders.

It would be helpful to know how old this Buffalo is. Hopefully it's not pre 2016.

Try using the RECOVER option of SDFtool Flasher. Go to the first post of the SDFTool flasher thread and watch the gif but in your situation, choose the exact BU40N BN12 firmware you flashed to it in the popup window then in the normal firmware selection drop down choose WH16NS60 1.02-MK.

So, the steps are:

Select the drive
Select RECOVER
In the popup window (read the title bar), choose the current (wrong) firmware that is on the drive: ie the BU40N BN12 firmware you flashed to it.
In the normal firmware selection drop down box, choose WH16NS60 1.02-MK.
Press START

I appreciate the detailed breakdown and I knew how to see how old the drive is

After I do the recover step what should I do after it finishes because should I do recovery twice

Well let me try what you said and I appreciate it


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When I try to flash I get this message now


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Sluggo080976 wrote: Mon Apr 27, 2026 2:32 am
When I try to flash I get this message now


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Take the disc out of the drive!!!