Making a Rescue USB Key for Windows 11 IoT Enterprise

Zebra 4Sight XV7 Product Reference Guide

In the case that your Zebra 4Sight XV7 operating system partition becomes corrupt, the easiest way to restore your unit is to use a rescue USB key containing the Zebra ResQDisk utility and a backup of your operating system partition. This procedure requires a USB key with at least 16 Gbytes.

To create a rescue USB key, you must access your Zebra 4Sight XV7 directly; you cannot perform this task remotely. To access the unit directly, connect a display device, keyboard, and mouse to your Zebra 4Sight XV7. For information, see the Connecting peripheral devices section.

When creating a rescue USB key, you must already have a backup file that you want to use for the recovery. This could either be the Zebra default factory settings backup .wim file (W11Ex64XV7.wim) that comes in your recovery partition, or an OS backup file that you have created (W11XV7.wim) using the procedure in the OS backup of Zebra 4Sight XV7 Windows 11 IoT Enterprise section earlier in this chapter.

To create a rescue USB key of your operating system partition, perform the following:

From the Windows Start menu, select

Settings

. From the presented window, select

Update & Security

and then

Recovery

. Under Advanced Startup, select

Restart now

. This will restart your Zebra 4Sight XV7 and then display the Zebra ResQDisk utility.

When the reboot process completes, it will display a screen asking you to choose an option. Click on the

Troubleshoot

option, and then on the

Zebra ResQDisk Utility

option.

If you don’t have access to the Zebra ResQDisk utility, contact Zebra support.

When the Zebra ResQDisk Utility dialog opens, you must read the license agreement. When done, click on the I agree button to accept the license agreement.

In the following dialog, select

Create USB drive for factory restore

Insert a USB key into your USB drive. If using a backup file that you have previously made and stored on a USB key, you will need to insert a second USB key with that backup.

The Zebra ResQDisk utility will open. In the

Select OS image

field, select to use the factory image or browse to the location where your required OS backup .wim file is found and use that file. In the Select USB storage device location field, select the USB drive that will be reformatted to a bootable USB drive.

Note that this will reformat your USB key and all its data will be erased.

Select

and the process of making a bootable USB drive will begin. When this operation completes successfully, your rescue USB key can then be used to either deploy a capture-for-deployment backup, restore an OS backup, or recover the operating system of your Zebra 4Sight XV7 unit to factory settings, depending on the .wim file that you used to make the bootable USB.