Connect or Mount USB Storage drives in Windows Linux Sub System

Hi folks,

This post will explain the process of connecting / mounting USB devices to Windows Linux Sub Systems

Mount removable media (e.g. E:)

$ sudo mkdir /mnt/e
$ sudo mount -t drvfs E: /mnt/e

Unmount

$ sudo umount /mnt/e

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Ubuntu and Windows system level utilities

Hi friends,

Please find the below links to customize or maintain your OS.

Recover data in Ubuntu
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/15761/recover-data-like-a-forensics-expert-using-an-ubuntu-live-cd/

Ubuntu LiveCD Customization from scratch
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDCustomizationFromScratch

Boot windows7 from USB
http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-install-windows-7vista-from-usb-drive-detailed-100-working-guide/
http://kmwoley.com/blog/?p=345

Windows OS Updates(SP?)
http://www.bootdisk.com/

Partition and Back utilities

Backup
http://www.todo-backup.com/products/home/free-backup-software.htm

partition
http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm

disk to disk copy
http://www.easeus.com/disk-copy/

Data Recovery
http://www.easeus.com/datarecoverywizard/free-data-recovery-software.htm

Hope the above tools will be useful for you.

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Protect Your USB Pen drive by making it Write Protect / Read Only Device in Windows from Viruses

Hi friends,

Today I have come across protecting the USB pen drive from viruses.

I found lot of useful stuff from internet. I just want to share my views on USB Pen drive protection

There are several to protect your pen drive from viruses. I found the following ways are useful.

Make the USB Pen drive Read-only or Writable:

1. Installing a software which provides options
2. Running the .reg files to edit the registry automatically
3. Manually editing registry

1. Installing a software which provides options
Thumbscrew is a software which makes the drive read-only or writable with single click.

Please find the source of the Thumbscrew software from this link
http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=security/thumbscrew-software-usb-write-blocker&mode=print

The installation and usage of the Thumbscrew software are described in this blog
http://editecforum.blogspot.com/2008/06/make-your-usb-read-only-while-putting.html

2. Running the .reg files to edit the registry automatically
Download the .reg files from this link
http://www.shaplus.com/exes/guide/EnableOrDisableUSBWrite.zip

When you want to make device read-only then please run the EnableUSBWrite.reg and connect the device
When you want to make device writable then please run the DisableUSBWrite.reg and copy the content

For further more information on these .reg files, please visit their link
http://www.shaplus.com/guide/Computer_Internet/write-protect-usb-flash-drive.htm

Note: You can view the .reg file content by opening the file in notepad or any other text editor

3. Manually editing registry
If you want to do it manually to see how it will work, then you can do that also by following this procedure
http://blog.ashfame.com/2008/04/write-protect-usb-thumb-pen-drive/




Make your USB Pen drive a bit faster
By following this procedure you can make your pen drive to work faster compared to previous
http://www.labofweb.com/how-to-protect-pendrive-from-virus-prevent-the-entry-of-virus-to-your-usb-drive-and-increase-its-speed-of-perfomance-by-formating-it-in-ntfs-file-system-and-making-as-read-only/

Protect your pen drives from viruses
Block all the executable files from your pen drive from running virus
http://www.techtola.com/2008/01/ways-to-prevent-70-virus-malware.html

Mounting (Connect) external disks in Ubuntu

Hi everyone,

Most of the present Ubuntu Operating Systems will auto-mount the internal/external disks.

In some cases that may not be done automatically. In that situation, you can manually mount the media to the Ubuntu.

Here comes the mounting of external disks like HDD, Pen-drive etc in Ubuntu. 

Procedure:

1) Open terminal
2) Type sudo su in the terminal
3) Enter the password
4) Now you will be in super user mode i.e. # mode
5) Go to the desktop or some folder where you want to create a folder for mounting
    ex: # cd /home/user1/Desktop
6) Create a directory
    ex: # mkdir ExtrnDisk
7) Type the following command for NTFS disks
    # mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 ExtrnDisk/ (FAT32 -- vfat)

    Type the following for rest of the disks
    # mount /dev/sdb ExtrnDisk/
8) Now you can see the drive contents mounted to ExtrnDisk folder

References:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Mount/USB

Write Protect your pen drive from copying, deleting and etc.,

Hi everyone,

Today one of my friend asked me "Why I cann't copy the data to my USB Pendrive". It is showing message like "Remove the write-protection or use another disk". Can you help me to resolve? "

I just checked and came to know that, the pen drive is write protected. Only we can copy the content from pen drive but can't do deleting and copying to pen drive.

• To remove the write protection, please follow the steps below.
• Open run window by pressing windows + R or start->run
• Type regedit.exe and click on "Ok" button or Press Enter button.
• Please go to the following path
    \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies
• If there is no WriteProtect key, please create a DWord key with name WriteProtect
• To enable write-protect, please give "1" as key value
• To disable write-protect, double click the WriteProtect key and give value as 0 

Hope you will protect your pendrive.

Fomat USB Pen drive in Linux

Hi everyone,
Lot of my friends asked me that how to format pendrive in Linux.
There are many methods to format pendrive.

Solution1: 
1) Open command prompt and enter into root or su mode.
   $ sudo -su ( In Ubuntu )
   $ su - ( In RedHat )
2) Identify to which device file the pendrive is mounted
    # dmesg | tail
3) Mostly it will be sda or sdb or sdc with some number.
4) Unmount the device file on which the pendrive mounted
   # umount /dev/sdb
   Note: Please change the sdb with your above identified device file
5) Now, we can format the pendrive
   # mkfs.vfat -n 'Label' -I /dev/sdb
   Note: vfat indicates FAT32 filesystem, ext3 indicates EXT3 filesystem.
   Please change the Label with your own Label.

Solution2: 
1) Open command prompt and enter into root or su mode
   $ sudo -su ( In Ubuntu )
   $ su - ( In RedHat )
2) Identify to which device file the pendrive is mounted
   # df
3) Mostly it will be sda or sdb or sdc with some number.
4) Unmount the device file on which the pendrive mounted
   # umount /dev/sdb
   Note: Please change the sdb with your above identified device file
5) Now, we can format the pendrive
   # /sbin/mkdosfs -F32 -I /dev/sdb 

Solution3:
We can format the pendrive using GUI tool also.

1) Open command prompt and enter into root or su mode
   $ sudo -su ( In Ubuntu )
   $ su - ( In RedHat )
2) Install GParted software
   # apt-get install gparted ( Ubuntu )
   For Redhat, Please download the GParted RPM from http://packages.sw.be/gparted/
   Then install the RPM Package
   # rpm -ivh gparted-version.rpm
   Note: Please change the version with your downloaded file version
3) Open the GParted tool
4) Select the drive
5) Choose Partition menu -> Format to -> any file system ( ex: fat32 )
   Note: Many filesystem options are available in Format to submenu.


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