Creating a desktop PC utility with an USB boot utility

[anfedres86]

Creating a desktop PC utility with an USB boot utility

Hi everybody

when I looked for how create an Real-Time Desktop ETS I found two ways to do it:

1. With USB create, here is the program: http://joule.ni.com/nidu/cds/view/p/lang/en/id/1369 

2. With Measurement & Automation Explorer (MAX)

With both, I been having trouble, but I could find an explanation of the error that comes up. This is the warning message that comes up: "Unable to find a USB drive. Make sure that it is connected to your computer." So I thought that the USB drive wasn't good, I changed the USB  and the same message keeps coming up. I looked for all the necesary requirements, and I have everything in order, the real time module, the CVI, and LabVIEW SP1, but I only have the evaluation version, I would like to check it first and look if it works OK.

Here are the instructions:
https://knowledge.ni.com/KnowledgeArticleDetails?id=kA00Z0000019LwrSAE&l=en-US

I hope that someone can help me. thanks.

[smithd]

Hey anfedres,

I went ahead and deactivated by labview and labview rt installs, and I was still able to format a USB drive just fine with both the utility and MAX. My suggestion would be to try switching out the USB drives again, the smaller the better. The utility is very small, so if you have any of those small flash drives that people give out at conferences/expos/etc, you may be better served by using that rather than a 16 GB drive. Some flash drives come with built in utilities that can cause problems, so the simpler the better. You might also completely format the usb drive using windows before using our utility. The flash drive I used was completely empty.

I also wanted to make sure that you were aware of the deployment license associated with the process you are attempting:

https://www.ni.com/en/shop/software-portfolio/deployment-and-debug-licenses-for-ni-software.html

Let me know how a different drive works out, and we can move forward from there.

Thanks,