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But if the controller is somehow damaged and non-responsive, the drive just seems to be toast. If it had still been working via SATA you could at least have continued to use the drive as an internal drive. If the drive wonвЂ™t work in the enclosure and wonвЂ™t work via SATA, then it looks like youвЂ™re down to buying a whole new external drive. Now that the warranty has been voided, and thereвЂ™s no firmware available to flash the drive with (not that IвЂ™m seeing what that would necessarily accomplish in the first place) you would appear to be stuck. It seems as if it would have been easier to have WD replace the drive under warranty, if something had failed. Which makes me even more curious why the technician wants to flash it with the вЂњoriginal firmwareвЂќ, when thatвЂ™s what it has already.

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YouвЂ™re rightвЂ¦ I find no results anywhere on the WD website to indicate there ever was such a model as WD10EAVS.Д«ut I still donвЂ™t get how you need the driveвЂ™s original firmwareвЂ¦ since there never was any updates to that family of SATA drive (either before or after the EAVS was discontinued), any firmware flashed into the controller on the EAVS is the only firmware thatвЂ™s ever been on that controllerвЂ¦ in other words, it already has the original firmware on it.ДЄs far as I can tell, from searches at WD and internet-wide, thereвЂ™s never been a firmware available for download for that family of drives from anywhereвЂ¦ what it has is what itвЂ™s always had. If youвЂ™ve removed the VCD from the EAVS, then you can now only hook it up to a SATA port on the motherboard and use it as an internal вЂ“ the enclosure is no longer any good to you.ДЄnd I donвЂ™t get why the firmware for a Caviar would have been in the MyBook section in the first place вЂ“ IвЂ™m not surprised that itвЂ™s not. The VCD is needed for the drive locking functions of the MyBook. ItвЂ™s interesting that you say the drive was 9 months old, and yet the HD inside it is only 4 months oldвЂ¦ was the 9 a typo, or are you trying to change the drive inside the enclosure?Д«ecause, if youвЂ™re trying to either switch the drive or to remove the VCD partition from it, then it wonвЂ™t work when you put it back in the enclosure. Of course, opening the case and connecting the drive directly to your motherboard through SATA has voided your warranty, so whatever the problem was that was causing your computer to suddenly crash after 4 months, I think youвЂ™re on your own here now.

The firmware updates available from WD only apply to the previous generations of My Book Essential. What your drive shipped with is the current version of the firmware.

WD MY BOOK ESSENTIAL 1TB SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD UPDATE

As far as I can tell, the firmware for the 2.0вЂ™s hasnвЂ™t been updatedвЂ¦ there is no firmware update to download.

Wd my book essential 1tb software download