Unable to write to my USB drive when using Forensic Caine 2.5.1
 

Hi,

Am using Forensic Live Boot CD "Caine 2.5.1" and am saving my results to my desktop. I am not able though to write to my USB key. The copy paste function from my desktop to the USB key is not enable. Through the terminal window, I am able to mount my USB key Ok but when I want to paste info to it, I don't have that option. I know it is a permission issue since Caine is a forensic tool and as such, does not permit writing to external devices. Any help is welcome. thanks. gg

I think the choice of distro is wrong.

Did you mount the usb as read-write? Not exactly sure where this save to desktop is really at so I can't say about that.

Use command mount to see.

HI jefro,

thanks for your reply.

From the terminal window and "uname -a", it tells me that it is linux caine 2.6.32 - Ubuntu.

I mounted the device using "mount /dev/sdb /media/sdb" in the terminal window. I did not use any options when doing so.

When saying "save from desktop to USB key", I used the copy function on a folder on the desktop and tried to paste it to the usb key but the paste option was greyed out for the USB destination.

I also just tried "pmount" to mount the device but it did not work as "pmount" is not installed and I can't install it with apt-get since I am not connected to the internet.

thanks

GGagnon

And you didn't answer the question about what the command mount says.

May it be the case that your USB device is formatted in NTFS?
If so, you have to use the -t ntfs-3g option for mount, otherwise the system will use the kernel's ntfs-drivers, which have no write support.

Hi, the command mount said " /dev/sdb on /media/sdb type vfat (rw)

Also, the usb key is formatted Fat32.

thanks