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by cdawzrd 4894 days ago
Bad firmware updates are (almost always) recoverable, just not always (easily) by the end user. What happens when you lose power is that you need to use the hardware-level debugging/testing functionality of whatever programmable device is in question--JTAG, for example--to load a running firmware image and then reprogram the half-programmed flash storage.