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    Getting WD My Book to work on Ubuntu?

    Sorry. I have not been clear. I don't have Windows, nor Mac ; I have a PC running Debian Linux. No other errors than the one I quoted. Here is the entire error message (hoping it helps): Error mounting /dev/sdb1 at /media/alain/BA68-2295:Command-line `mount -t "exfat" -o...
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    Getting WD My Book to work on Ubuntu?

    I am not booting from the WD drive. I am booting from my internal drive. But when I plug the WD drive into one of my USB slots, the disk does not mount. I visited "My computer" where the disks at least show up in the list. The WD drive shows up here, seems fine. But if I try to mount it (as a...
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    Getting WD My Book to work on Ubuntu?

    I have another problem related to the same matter. With above advice, I got the drive up and running the first times. Now that I have copîed a LOT of files to it, and crashed while trashing some files, the drive won't boot anymore. I tried re-doing the above, but to no avail. My WD My Book 4T...
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    Getting WD My Book to work on Ubuntu?

    Followed your advice, but I got this : mount: unknown filesystem type 'exfat' Superb! It worked. Thank you very much.
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    Getting WD My Book to work on Ubuntu?

    Followed your advice, but I got this : mount: unknown filesystem type 'exfat'
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