{"id":2493,"date":"2018-01-30T20:14:53","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T04:14:53","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2022-03-22T12:44:19","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T19:44:19","slug":"2493","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/2493","title":{"rendered":"What is the ideal way to prepare a USB thumb drive for updating original LabQuest?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This information pertains to the original LabQuest.<\/h3>\n

If you have LabQuest 2, see this article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\nTo prepare a USB thumb drive for updating LabQuest, do the following:<\/p>\n

1. Start with a clean and validated USB drive. See My USB drive is not recognized by LabQuest. What can I do?<\/a> If you are trying to recover a non-booting LabQuest, you need to use a drive that is 4 GB or less.<\/p>\n

2. Make sure that you are applying an update that works with your LabQuest. Original LabQuest will only support software version numbers starting with a 1 (for example, LabQuest App 1.6). The original LabQuest cannot use update files intended for LabQuest 2 or LabQuest 3 (for example LabQuest App 2.1).<\/p>\n

3. If you haven’t already done so, double-click to unzip the .zip<\/b> update file downloaded from:
\nhttps:\/\/www.vernier.com\/labquest\/updates\/<\/a><\/p>\n

4. Copy the contents of the unzipped folder to your USB drive. It is important to copy only the contents<\/em> of the folder, and not the folder itself. Also, it is important to copy the contents directly to the “root” level of the USB drive, which is the top-most level in the file structure of the USB drive. In other words, do not put the contents into a new folder, or into any existing folder.<\/p>\n

5. You should now see three items on the USB drive:
\n— an updater file ending in .lqu <\/b>
\n— a folder named fw <\/b>
\n— a folder named fw_pre <\/b>
\nSpecifically, if you are using Windows and your USB drive is F:<\/b>, then the location should be F:fw<\/b>.
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On a Mac, it should be the first thing you see when you click on the drive.<\/p>\n

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If the items were not copied to the root level, you will see a folder name between the drive name and the item name (e.g., F:LQv1.5.1-Updatefw). If this is the case, remove the items from the folder and put them at the root level of the USB drive.<\/p>\n

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