Workaround for E09 Classmate USB boot failure

[rrossbach]

Our team is one whose 2009 Classmate refuses to boot from the 2012 Driver Station Image USB provided in the KoP.

As a workaround, we cleaned a generic USB stick (an old Microcenter 16GB), copied all the contents of the KoP stick to it, and made it bootable using the Windows 7 AIK tools (bootsect /nt60). The Clasmate booted and re-imaged successfully from the generic USB stick.

Hope this helps....we found this process easier than doing the "clean and update" procedure previously posed on the FIRST website.

- Ron
Team #2607 controls mentor

[CJ1994]

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!! I will try this tomorrow and post results! We are having the same issue. :)

[CJ1994]

Question: could you apply the "bootsect /nt60 X:" command to the image that FIRST gave us* or will this not work.

Side note: I have not been able to try this suggestion yet. I will post results later.

*All other people reading this, REMEMBER BACKUP, BACKUP, BACKUP before you modify anything that FIRST gave us!

[CJ1994]

Ok tried this. It didn't work. What command did you use with bootsect.exe?
Thanks in advance

[rrossbach]

Assuming the new generic USB stick is drive X:, the command "bootsect /nt60 X:" should work.

Make certain you start from a "clean" USB stick - use diskpart to "clean" the stick, then create a new primary partition on the stick, mark it active, and format it.

Then copy over the contents from the KoP USB stick.

Then use bootsect to make the USB bootable.


- Ron
Team #2607 controls mentor

[ssirovica]

how do you copy it to the other "clean" disk
because i have a 8GB flash disk however it says i dont have enough space to copy it over
i need some help!! Thank you!!!!:]

[dez250]

FIRST released today a walk through (http://www.usfirst.org/sites/default/files/uploadedFiles/Robotics_Programs/FRC/Game_and_Season__Info/2012_Assets/Creating_a_USB_drive_for_2012_Classmate_Image_Rest oration_Rev0.pdf) on how to transfer the files from the damaged flash drive to a new flash drive that will fix the damaged boot sector.

[ssirovica]

Thank you so much!!! It works!!!