Apologies if the title makes this seem like a general linux issue. I have a Samsung S4, that I need to mount as a drive to run some forensic investigation tools against. The phone connects up correctly using MTP and displays but mounts as a device under the usb path. I need to mount as a hard disk for the imaging and carving work that needs to be done. There are several ways to mount the device and I have installed mtpfs for performing the mount and am using the following command with the following result.

Code:
sudo mtpfs -o allow_other /myPhone
Listing raw device(s)
Device 0 (VID=04e8 and PID=6860) is a Samsung GT P7310/P7510/N7000/I9070/I9100/I9300 Galaxy Tab 7.7/10.1/S2/S3/Nexus/Note/Y.
   Found 1 device(s):
   Samsung: GT P7310/P7510/N7000/I9070/I9100/I9300 Galaxy Tab 7.7/10.1/S2/S3/Nexus/Note/Y (04e8:6860) @ bus 1, dev 6
Attempting to connect device
PTP_ERROR_IO: failed to open session, trying again after resetting USB interface
LIBMTP libusb: Attempt to reset device
LIBMTP PANIC: failed to open session on second attempt
Unable to open raw device 0
I am not married to mtpfs but am most familiar with it in this context.
I have the screen unlocked as well to no avail. Have consulted the following:

http://roger.steneteg.org/299/mount-...bian-7-wheezy/
http://www.kalilinux.net/community/t...-go-mtpfs.353/
http://research.jacquette.com/jmtpfs...ces-and-linux/
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1144410

and others in an attempt to find either a fix or alternate solution for mounting the phone as a hard disk in Kali.

Currently using:
Kali 1.0.5 64 bit in a VMware fusion environment.

Any assistance would be appreciated.