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How to mount a USB flash drive on exFat format

damessican

Sat Jan 11, 2014 12:28:37 am

Good evening.
I have some files that are 8.5 gigs stored in my video folder (a movie), and want to transfer it to my windows 7 machine.
The problem i have is that Zorin 7 Ultimate does not recognize a flash drive mounted on NTFS or exFat only a FAT32 format flash drive
but as we all know Fat32 is limited as to anything larger than 3.999 gigs.

Is there a way of mounting a flash drive on NTFS or exFat format ?
As they will accept a file larger than 4 gigs.

Sincerely: damessican

Swarfendor437

Sat Jan 11, 2014 10:07:25 am

I don't know of any software to do this but the quickest way (if both machines are desktops) is to take the Windows Hard Drive out of the Windows machine and add it to the Zorin one and transfer that way as Zorin 7 natively mounts ntfs through built-in ntfs-3g.

Linx

Sat Jan 11, 2014 10:30:34 am

I did some research on the exFAT, and I suggest you read up on it, basically Microsoft hasn't released official specs for exFAT, and it is under a huge pile of patents.

I know that ntfs can be mounted, I do it all the time.
I'll need a little bit I'll try to find the commands for it.

Linx

Sat Jan 11, 2014 10:59:46 am

I have been doing some digging.

I believe this will help you out.
http://apcmag.com/how-to-enable-exfat-in-ubuntu.htm

I also tested to make sure, I was able to automount a NTFS partitioned drive, no issues whatsoever.