Insert a Usb Drive With Firmware to Recover Your Wdtv
B-Rad’s custom firmware not working out for y’all? Having a problem with crashing or locking up? You may want to restore your WDTV to the latest “Factory” firmware… i.e. the firmware that Western Digital has adult and tested equally being stable. (Personally, I have no upshot with B-Rad’s custom  firmware just I have had several people request that I put this together and understandably things don’t always piece of work the same for anybody and furthermore people take different wants/requirements…)
Well, yous are in luck! In this cursory tutorial I have provided everything you need (software with the necessary file modifications and easy to follow instructions) to flash your WDTV
back
to the stock firmware provided by Western Digital. FIRST, every bit with all of my tutorials y’all need to download the appropriate software package for this little operation from one of the 2 links below:
If you have a 1st generation WDTV, download from here:
If you lot have a 2nd generation WDTV, download from hither:
If yous don’t know the deviation then read this:
How to Tell the Difference Between WDTV Devices and
then
download the advisable bundle for your device….
Finally, you will also need a blank USB thumb bulldoze… (if it isn’t blank, backup everything on it because nosotros are going to be “reformatting” it which will erase all of the data).
OK… now that yous have the advisable package, the instructions going frontward are adequately simple…
STEP i. Extract the contents of my zip file to a new folder on your desktop.
STEP two. Plug the thumb drive you will be using into your figurer. I recommend you
unplug
all other USB hard drives / thumb drives / storage devices from your computer for the remainder of this tutorial.
Footstep 3. Open up the “STEP 3” Folder from my extracted software pack and double-click the “usb_format.exe” file. In the “USB Disk Storage Format” tool window that pops up:
a.
Select your usb pollex bulldoze from the “device” drop downwardly box (if yous unplugged all other drives from your PC, it should be the but option. Information technology IS CRITICAL You SELECT THE CORRECT DEVICE BECAUSE THIS Programme IS GOING TO ERASE EVERYTHING ON THE SELECTED DRIVE. ÂYes, I accidentally formated my 500 GB external hard drive with this program one time and spent half a 24-hour interval recovering all my data! Humorous now but not at the time 🙂
b.
Select “Fat 32” from the File System drop downward carte du jour.
 c.
Under “Volume Characterization” name your device WDTVDRIVE (you tin can also proper name information technology whatever you desire, just don’t put whatever spaces)
 d.
Put a check marker in the box adjacent to “Quick Format”
due east.
Leave the boxes next to “Enable Compression” and “Create a Dos Bootable Deejay” empty
f.
Double-check everything and then striking the “Outset” button. The formatting process shouldn’t take very long at all… You can click “close” when it is finished.
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STEP 4. OK, now we have a bare, properly formatted thumb drive. Continue it plugged in. Copy the contents (
ii files
for Gen 1 units;Â
three files
for Gen 2 units) from the “Step 4” binder straight onto your Thumb Bulldoze. They should exist the only thing on the drive.
STEP 5. Eject and Unplug your thumbdrive from your figurer. Power down your WDTV using the remote control’s ability button. THEN, unplug the power cord from your WDTV. Unplug ALL other USB drives from your WDTV.
STEP 6. Plug the thumb drive into the “side” USB port of the WDTV. Plug the ability cord back into the WDTV and wait for the unit to ability back on and fully load into the interface.
a. In one case everything has loaded, your WDTV may spring immediately to the proper icon saying that there is “new” firmware institute.
b. If non, navigate to the “Settings” bar and select the firmware upgrade icon and press the “ENTER” button on your remote.
STEP 7. You volition be prompted to install the firmware. Select “OK” and hitting the “ENTER” button on your remote.
STEP 8. Wait AND DON’T Affect ANYTHING. The system will first reset itself and it will then bring upwardly a progress bar and start to change the firmware. It could take a few minutes, sometimes it can take quite a bit longer. I honestly don’t know why it varies as much as it does at times. Regardless, don’t freak out and do anything airheaded. Wait for it to finish doing its thing. It will eventually give you an “upgrade finished” message and tell you it needs to reboot. Hit the “ENTER” push button on your remote when this happens, the organisation volition reset.
STEP 9. When the system reboots and loads up once again, information technology will tell y’all there is new firmware to install. This is not an “fault.” Your firmware is upgraded, you don’t need to go through the procedure again. But we do want to get rid of this abrasive message. And so… turn off your WDTV and unplug information technology. Unplug your pollex drive.
Pace 10.
Plug your thumb bulldoze dorsum into your figurer and open it upwards.
STEP 11.
Copy the contents of the “Stride 11” folder straight onto the thumb drive. The system will ask yous if you want to overwrite a file on the drive… select “Aye” or “Overwrite” or “Replace”. The idea is that you want to supplant the file on the drive with the file from the Footstep eleven binder that has the same proper noun.
–YOUR DONE!–
You lot can now utilize this thumb drive for whatever you desire, you can plug it dorsum into the WDTV and information technology should no longer tell you to update your firmware. The firmware that is now installed is the factory stuff. Cheers!
