Samsung 850 PRO firmware update fialed. Now drive won't boot

[subsailor416]

I turned on my computer and a message popped up to update my 3 month old Samsung firmware.
I used Magician 4.5, pushed the button, and it said "failed to update drive with new firmware".
Oh? When I rebooted later my OS would not boot. I went into the bios and it ID'd the drive as Samsung 3.
Now I can't boot the drive at all. I burned the ISO of the firmware update but it can NOT find the drive in DOS. If I boot with another drive and the ruined drive together, both Samsung 840 Pro and Samsung 850 Pro, it jams the boot until I remove the damaged drive. Anybody have any knowledge or any ideas?

 

[shikima]

I have the same problem, and now in my bios show my ssd with the name 3ckcCkckcCk;!cKcCcKcCcI and I can't re-update it

 

[Pauly]

I would contact Samsung for a warranty replacement, if their update software and firmware bricked the drive then I would say the onus is on them to replace it

 

[TCMuffin]

I turned on my computer and a message popped up to update my 3 month old Samsung firmware.
I used Magician 4.5, pushed the button, and it said "failed to update drive with new firmware".
Oh? When I rebooted later my OS would not boot. I went into the bios and it ID'd the drive as Samsung 3.
Now I can't boot the drive at all. I burned the ISO of the firmware update but it can NOT find the drive in DOS. If I boot with another drive and the ruined drive together, both Samsung 840 Pro and Samsung 850 Pro, it jams the boot until I remove the damaged drive. Anybody have any knowledge or any ideas?

Me too...except my SSD was only delivered on 2 February :devil:

 

[TCMuffin]

We have created a FB group to collate Samsung's response...please join us by clicking here

 

[shikima]

I join us in the facebook group

 

[AllisterFiend]

I have the same problem, and now in my bios show my ssd with the name 3ckcCkckcCk;!cKcCcKcCcI and I can't re-update it

Exact same thing happened to me.

 

[ensahs]

Error firmware update SSD 850 PRO


I have the same problem

 

[dsperber]

Glad I saw this thread. I'm installing a brand new 850 Pro into a new Lenovo M93p which is scheduled to arrive early next week, and I would normally do all vendor-provided updates. If it had been at 01 I certainly would have attempted the upgrade to 02, if available.

Just to follow this up...

The 850 Pro which I received already had the 02 firmware in it. So no need to do anything.

 

[Squuiid]

Here's a fix folks:
Samsung 850 Pro SSD Corrupted Firmware Fix: Read first - SSD - Storage

 

[Squuiid]

Oh, and this guy has modified the image and removed the check:
Forum de Luxx...

Now a secondary SSD is no longer necessary.

Updated image:
Zippyshare.com - Samsung_850-Pro_Fix.iso