wine users - Dec 2011 - Wine doesn't write in the USB pendrive

Hi, Everybody.
I have tried to update Portable Firefox to the last version (v. 9) at home, in
order I could get the latest one to use also at Office (where I don't have
Administrator rights, neither can install Firefox 'natively'...);
however, after reinstalling Wine 32 in my personal machine (running Mageia),
Wine  doesn't recognize the USB Pendrive ans 'writeable', then the
update fails... How to set-up Wine accordingly to settle such issue?

2011/12/26 Andr? Luiz D. Queiroz <wineforum-user at
winehq.org>:
> Hi, Everybody.
> I have tried to update Portable Firefox to the last version (v. 9) at home,
in order I could get the latest one to use also at
> Office (where I don't have Administrator rights, neither can install
Firefox 'natively'...); however, after reinstalling Wine 32 in
> my personal machine (running Mageia), Wine ?doesn't recognize the USB
Pendrive ans 'writeable', then the update fails...
> How to set-up Wine accordingly to settle such issue?
>
One:  Please check with your company's security folks.  You may be
subjecting yourself to immediate termination (I know that would happen
where I work.)
Two:  Insure that the USB device is mounting in Linux as read-write.
If it is mounting as read-only consult your Linux distribution for
additional assistance.
Three:  Check what type of drive device Wine is mounting the device as
in winecfg.  Make sure that Wine is seeing the drive as a
removable/hard drive and not a CDROM/DVD device.

You may have to plug in the device before starting Wine so that the
device will be identified properly and then unmount it after shutting
down Wine.

James

Thank you, James.
Don't worry about security policy at my work. Actually, Firefox is the
current 'official' browser, but my machine is an old one where it's
not 'officially' installed. I'm not subject to any threat for using
portable applications.
I've checked the winecfg, and the USB device wasn't  there. Ok, I set-up
drive E: as the USB pendrive, with proper path ('/media/KINGSTON4GB'),
but had to put it as hard drive, once I couldn't find a better option.
Nevertheless, wine still can't see the device and/or Firefox directory as
writeable...
When I took a look on it through Dolphin, the device is set as read & write
for the user (myself).
And worse! Something got scrambled in my pendrive, my Windows machine at work
isn't recognizing it!("seems to not be formatted!!")

Any help will be very appreciated !!
Regards!

> 
> Interesting as this should allow the device to be written to.  Does
> your user have rights to the files/directories from Linux?
> 
I'm not sure about user's rights; nevertheless, this problem begun after
I changed form a previous Wine64 installation to Wine32, and this just because I
chose to install Playonlinux 32 bits from Magia repository (64 bits version
isn't available there...), in order to install MS fonts properly (Firefox
seemed to run normal over Wine, except for the fonts not installed...)

> 
> Can you read/write to it from Linux?  If you can, it may be that the
> drive's attributes have been corrupted.  That is outside of the scope
> of the Wine project to fix.
> 
> James
I know you can try to help me only about Wine. Thanks, anyway!
I'm looking for how to solve pendrive issue (which is far mor important to
me) in another forums!
Regards!