Re: USB came in corrupt :(
 

Team 1895 in Manassas, VA is having the same problem.
2009 classmate, could not boot with USB Drive.
Restarted, used the driver station update.
Now it failed to find some National Instruments software and appears hung.

Really could used some FIRST ORG guidance in this area.

Re: USB came in corrupt :(
 

The document detailed by FIRST indicates you have to uninstall all your old NI software, then install the new Driver Station Support Software from the kit NI USB before applying the update.

Re: USB came in corrupt :(
 

Team 1849 is also running into this problem.

I see the reference to the kit NI USB in the supplement but we didn't get one in the KOP and I don't see one in the KOP inventory. What are we missing?

Re: USB came in corrupt :(
 

It's on the checklist as LabVIEW for FRC. You have to install some components of it even if you don't program in LabVIEW :rolleyes:

Re: USB came in corrupt :(
 

Arggh. Didn't realize it was in the package that looks like it usually holds disc type media. I feel silly. Looks like we are making progress, but aren't able to image the machine using the e09 image usb.

Re: USB came in corrupt :(
 

We had the one that is white and green, have no idea if it is for the '09 or '11, but what we did was image the flash drive over to a different non-san-disk flashdrive and the image installed great. I imagine we got the '09 image since the team is over 5 years old. The san disk flash drives are weird, so basically duplicate the flash drive on a different flash drive and try from there!

I'll alert my mentor of this thread and see what he says as he knows more about it than me. No promises on the solution!

Re: USB came in corrupt :(
 

After having this same problem (ours is the 2009 Classmate so we received the E09 USB stick in the KoP), we created our own bootable USB stick for the image as described here. The Classmate booted successfully from that and we were able to reimage successfully.

Basically we just copied all the files from the KoP USB stick over to a clean generic USB stick, and then made it bootable using the "bootsect" tool.

(NOTE: "bootsect" is the MS command-line tool to install boot sectors on disks. It can be found on any full versions of the Windows 7 DVD, and is also included in Windows 7 Automated Installer Kit tools which are freely available here.)

Hope this helps...feel free to PM if any questions.

- Ron
Team #2607 controls mentor

Re: USB came in corrupt :(
 

For those of you on linux all i did was use gparted to toggle the boot flag and ran a check. I don't know what one made the difference but now the USB is good and I didn't even have to copy a file.

Hope this helps someone.

Re: USB came in corrupt :(
 

Got a more advanced error. After I followed the instructions on usfirst.com to reimage the classmate using a second usb, windows refuses to boot, instead get a BCD error. Wish FIRST would just post the reimaging files to download...

Edit: Got it working after recopying the boot files to the USB. Only problem encountered is having Windows say it is not a valid copy.....

Re: USB came in corrupt :(
 

The "Getting Started" document linked to from the Kit of Parts Technical Resources page tells you how to activate Windows. It's in the Initial Driver Station Set Up section on page 8.

Re: USB came in corrupt :(
 

our team also has the E09 classmate and we are getting the same error as everyone else...

is there a fix yet?

sorry if i missed it in one of the posts...

Re: USB came in corrupt :(
 

Yes, there's a fix. Make sure you're reading the Team Updates.

Re: USB came in corrupt :(
 

I'm going to be honest and say I didn't read through this whole thread (too many replys).

Our soloution to this was to format a new USB stick using the diskpart command (I unfortunately cannot remember the exact commands, don't forget to format as ntfs though (FAT32 can't hold some of the Classmate files)!) and then to copy the files from the classmate E09 USB onto the new USB stick.

Note: You may be able to skip the new USB stick and just use the E09 USB stick for both the new and old USB mentioned here.

- Jack :)

Re: USB came in corrupt :(
 

There is a type of virus that can delete usb information. you may want to go on a different computer and download this:
http://www.snapfiles.com/downloads/r...storation.html
it will recover all the information of your usb

Re: USB came in corrupt :(
 

well we have tried what first has said to do and with it, it didn't work...