Create your own Raptor USB for FREE!!!

Forward Discovery offers a sleek, credit-card style USB device with Raptor preinstalled for sale. All purchases of these Raptor USB devices go toward future upgrades and support for the Raptor Project. We continue to support Raptor's development and our upcoming release will have some exciting new features.

If you prefer a do-it-yourself approach, you can install Raptor on a 1 GB or larger USB device of your choosing for FREE by following these steps:

  1. Download Raptor and burn it to a CDROM
  2. Boot Raptor without the USB device inserted on an analysis (not suspect/target) computer
  3. From the top left menu bar, select Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal
  4. In the terminal window type: sudo rm /etc/udev/rules.d/50-writeblocker.rules
    This will remove the write protection for this booted session only. Do not connect evidence to the computer during this boot session, because it will be mounted and may be written to.
  5. (OPTIONAL) If you want to verify that the command above worked, you can type ls /etc/udev/rules.d to verify that the file 50-writeblocker.rules is no longer present, but this is not be a necessary step
  6. Type exit to close the Terminal window
  7. Insert the USB device you wish to use for Raptor. Please note that all data on this device will be permanently deleted during this process.
  8. Open the Raptor Toolbox
  9. Using the Raptor Toolbox, Wipe the USB device
  10. Using the Raptor Toolbox, Format the device as FAT32 with name RAPTOR (this name is required to utilize the logging features of Raptor)
  11. From the top left menu bar select System -> Administration -> USB Startup Disk Creator
  12. Make sure the Source disc image points at your Raptor CD
  13. Make sure the Disk to use is set to the RAPTOR partition on your USB device
  14. Under “When starting up from this disk, documents and settings will be:”, select “Discarded on shutdown, unless you save them elsewhere”
  15. Click “Make Startup Disk”
  16. Wait for the GUI to complete
  17. Shutdown Raptor and when prompted to remove the CDROM, remove the CDROM and the USB device.

Thats it! Now with this information, you can create your own Raptor USB boot devices for FREE.

Again, Raptor USB cards are still available and will remain available for purchase. Your purchase of these devices will aid in the future development and support of Raptor.