Insert USB with Firmware for WD TV Live Media player

[Moses2020]

Hi,
My WD TV live (Model WDBAANOOOONBK-00 has stopped working. When powered on the only message on the screen is “Insert a USB drive with firmware to recover your WDTV” I have downloaded the firmware but the device does not read the USB on several attempts. What do I need to do?
Moses

[Bobbygscott]

Search Google for I believe 2.21 or something download extract t it to a fat 32 USB drive place in back of devices USB slot. Show update or show new firmware click and update even if it’s a down grade. This firmware seems to work best. Good luck.

[JoeySmyth]

@Bobbygscott

Show update or show new firmware click and update

That only appears on a WDTV that has successfully booted

The “Insert a USB drive with firmware to recover your WDTV” is a pre-boot error message.

There’s plenty of previous posts regarding this problem … the one below found by searching this forum is probably the most relevant to the OP’s problem.

Insert a USB Drive with firmware to recover your WDTV - resolved!

Hello everybody! This is just a message to tell all of you that after searching on the net and do many tests, I solved the problem of a failed update into a WD TV Live Streaming Media Player. This is what I did: First, I used a pen-drive with a partition of 2GB. (physical capacity of 16GB.). I did that partition under Windows 10. I unzipped all the files of “wdtvlivegen3_rollback_2.01.86.zip” ( http://download.wdc.com/wdtv/wdtvlivegen3_rollback_2.01.86.zip)) into this pen-drive and I tried…