Desktop PC Utility USB Drive
- Updated2023-08-04
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Desktop PC Utility USB Drive
The Desktop PC Utility USB Drive lets you perform maintenance operations on a USB-capable desktop PC with LabVIEW Real-Time installed on its hard drive.
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Complete the following steps to create the Desktop PC Utility USB Drive from your host PC or PXI system:
- Plug a USB drive into a USB port.
Note Close all applications and windows that access the USB drive you want to use as the Desktop PC Utility USB Drive. The USB drive must not be in use by any other processes. - From within MAX, select the Tools»Create Desktop PC Utility USB Drive menu item.
- Click Yes to confirm that you want to create the Desktop PC Utility USB Drive.
- Select the version of the utility you want to use and click OK.
- Select the USB drive you want to format as a Desktop PC Utility USB Drive. Click OK.
Caution Any data on the USB drive will be overwritten. - If necessary, confirm that you are aware that this operation destroys all data on the selected USB drive.
To use the Desktop PC Utility USB drive, plug it into an empty USB port on the desktop PC you use as the remote system. Power on or reset the remote desktop PC.
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Note You must set the BIOS of the computer on which you want to use the USB device to allow booting from a USB drive. Set the boot sequence to search for boot files on the USB drive first. |
The Desktop PC Utility USB Drive presents the following menu selections:
- Boot using software installed on the hard-disk.
Boots the system using NI Real-Time software installed on the hard drive. If there is no NI Real-Time software installed on the hard drive, the utility boots the system into safe mode to allow software to be installed. - Boot into safe mode.
Boots the system into safe mode. This selection brings up the minimal set of services necessary to configure the system's network settings and to install software to the system. This mode does not utilize any installed software on the hard drive, so it is useful as a recovery and configuration mode if you are having difficulty booting the software from the hard drive. - Reset network configuration.
Clears the system's IP address, subnet mask, gateway, and DNS address. When the target is rebooted, it will automatically acquire an IP address if your target supports automatic IP assignment. If your target boots with an IP address of 0.0.0.0, you must reconfigure its network settings. - Clear password.
Clears the system's password, if one has been set. - Disable LabVIEW Real-Time start-up application.
If there is a LabVIEW Real-Time start-up application present, this selection prevents the application from running when the system starts up. Once the application has been disabled, you must use the LabVIEW Real-Time development environment to reenable it. - Format hard disk.
Reformats the system's hard drive to allow you to boot NI Real-Time software directly from the hard drive. This operation will destroy all data currently on the hard drive. The first time the system is booted from the hard disk after it has been formatted, it will boot into safe mode. Targets that support automatic IP address assignment will be assigned an IP address. For targets that do not support automatic IP address assignment, the first time the system boots from the hard drive after it has been formatted, it will boot into safe mode with an IP address of 0.0.0.0. You can then configure the system's network settings and install software to the hard drive. - Evaluate system
Evaluates a system's hardware configuration to determine whether the system is capable of running NI Real-Time software. - Advanced Ethernet Options
Allow you to create a whitelist that specifies additional Intel i8254x chipset-based Ethernet devices for the Real-Time operating system to load and use. You must also create a blacklist to specify which devices should not be used.
Enable the Ethernet whitelist by creating a properly formatted enetwhitelist.ini file in the Real-Time target's c:\ni-rt\system\ethernet directory or in the root directory of a safe-mode USB drive.Note Not all Intel i8254x chipsets will work, even with the whitelist enabled. To enable the Ethernet whitelist on a safe-mode USB drive, the USB drive must be the only USB device on the Real-Time target at boot time. - Reboot the system
Reboots the NI Real-Time system. - Backup, Restore, or Replicate the Real-Time system
Provides options for backing up, restoring, or replicating the NI Real-Time system using the current USB flash drive.