{"id":1984,"date":"2011-09-30T16:54:20","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T23:54:20","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-09-14T13:57:17","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T20:57:17","slug":"1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/1984","title":{"rendered":"Original LabQuest Updater Fails with the message, &#8220;The USB THUMB DRIVE is not configured correctly.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the .lqu file is in a different folder than the &#8220;fw_pre&#8221; and &#8220;fw&#8221; folders, the updater will fail with the message:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><i>The USB THUMB DRIVE is not configured correctly.<br \/>\nPlease download the updater again and retry the update.<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The zip file was probably not unzipped correctly. Try the following steps:<\/p>\n<p>1. Go back to the zip file for the update, and extract the files again.<br \/>\n2. Copy the folder to the USB drive intact, so that all the contents are in the original folder.<br \/>\n3. Retry the update with the newly extracted files.<br \/>\n4. If the update still fails, follow the detailed instructions at:<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/til\/2493\/\">What is the ideal way to prepare a USB thumb drive for updating original LabQuest?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See also:<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/til\/1782\/\">My USB drive is not recognized by LabQuest. What can I do?<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/til\/2370\/\">My original LabQuest is stuck on the LabQuest logo screen.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the .lqu file is in a different folder than the &#8220;fw_pre&#8221; and &#8220;fw&#8221; folders, the updater will fail with the message: The USB THUMB&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2462,3158,3159,479],"class_list":["post-1984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-labq","tag-thumb","tag-update-updater","tag-usb"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}