Hi Teddy, I used the dosflash method on a bw-16d1ht and got through dumping firmware and hex editing. When it went to wright the updated firmware to the drive dosflash could not find the firmware file i loaded on my USB.
Any suggestions?
Hi joe711,
dosflash only works with drives directly connected to SATA - but why the heck you are trying this????? Read post #677 with the link provided by SamuriHL. It is much easier, safer and works also with drives connected via USB.
Yes better use the safe method with the modified LG utility / modified Asus utility.
Dosflash is risky, because it's overwriting whole EEPROM, which would be disastrous when you flash over with Dosflash a (wrongly)-edited firmware and even when it's (principally) correctly hexedited but when the prioncipially correct hexrange was from an (in)complete dump (e.g. from Devilsclaw flasher)/
"Clean"-firmware or other kind of defective dump.
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You dumped your original unit's firmware at first, using Dosflash, correct??
Also I would read it out a 2nd and rd time, just to check that all are identical, to exclude file system-error or due to an failing USB-flash-drive etc.
And stored it seperately, e.g. also a 2nd backup copy?
Just answering your question:
Maybe the firmware filename is too long, and DOS/Freedos shorts the filename, replaces the last too many letters with a "~" in behind.
If you know the name of the hexedited firmware-file (at least the first letters), and you clear know which file it is:
If the firmware file is in the root-directory of your USB-key, in DOS/Freedos
you can list the directory's content by typing "dir" (without exclamation marks)
dir
look for a file where the first letters match the filename of your hexedited firmware, and probably it might be shortened with a "~" at back.
If you can't find it even though copied over, maybe it's due to a file system error on your USB key, but please be sure to have first copied your
original-unit's-firmware-dump from your USB-key to HDD, before doing a filesystem check etc.
and before flashing over anything with Dosflash!!
Also I would dump original firmware 2nd and 3rd time, just to check that all are identical, to exclude file system-error or due to an failing USB-flash-drive etc.
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Is the size of your hexedited firmware also 2,097,152 bytes ?
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But better use the safe method with the modified LG utility / modified Asus utility, as coopervid and SamuriHL, etc. suggest!!