How to read binary files wrt specific BYTE size and length??

Hello Everyone,
I have a project I want to accomplish. I have a binary file, and I would like to read the data and print on wfm in a specific order and size.
The data is 16 bit binary type , and needs to be read in chunks of 2 bytes.
i have 30 bytes of sample 1.
followed by 2 bytes of sample 2.
followed by another 2 bytes of sample 3.
steps 2-4 should be repeated 10 times and then i should read sample 4 which is of 2 bytes.....
How should I do it?? I don't have any VI build... all i have is the example VI...
can anyone pleasehelp me???
Now on LabVIEW 10.0 on Win7

smercurio_fc, sorry for the confusion, i will try my best to explain...
1. No, i don;t have to read the file again, once it has read, I used
while loop just to see the data updating (i press run, and before i can
visualize i have the waveforms; i can get rid of the while loop)
2. I have 30 different values of 1 sample. actually, the data is cmg
from tri-axial accelerometer; each axis is of 10 bytes(hence 3*10 =
30bytes)
3. I am repeating the steps 2-4 10 times because the data was written
into the binary file after 10 times sampling the sensors(if first 3
samples are read @ 1000hz, sample 4 was read at 1000/10 = 100hz)
4. I am using the graphs to interpret the values, that's it. The
values are already scaled when they were wrote to the binary file, I
have to simply interpret it.
I have made some changes in the VI, now i am reading only the first
30bytes, that too, in chunks of 10-10-10 bytes, and plotting the 3
samples simultaneously on a waveform chart. (will approach 1
sensor/sample at a time) and running the loop for 10 times. I have changed I8 to I16 now.
Please let me know if it makes sense to you now.
P.S. each sample is a sensor data.
Now on LabVIEW 10.0 on Win7
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data_read.vi ‏24 KB

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