Hi everyone,
I am trying to recover a bricked Samsung SM841 OEM SSD from an HP EliteBook laptop. The drive experienced a microcode/panic lock failure and became completely unresponsive (not detected in BIOS).
I have successfully opened the casing and managed to force the Samsung MDX controller into Safe Mode / ROM Mode (SATA_BOOT) by shorting the correct test points (Pins 6 & 7 based on continuity testing to GND). The drive is now recognized in Windows Device Manager as a generic “SATA_BOOT” device under SCSI\Disk IDs.
Since HP has scrubbed their older SoftPaqs from their official support pages, I am unable to acquire the correct OEM firmware package.
Could anyone please share a raw firmware dump or binary file (.bin / .fw) for this specific HP OEM drive?
Here are the exact drive specs from the casing sticker:
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Model: MZ-7PD2560/0H7 (MZ7PD256HAFV-000H7)
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HP P/N: 717354-001
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Original Firmware: DXM05H6Q (or compatible HP OEM release like DXM06B0Q / DXM06H6Q)
Any help or upload link would be highly appreciated. Thank you in advance!
Edit by Fernando: Thread moved into the “Solid State Drives” Category and title customized