I formatted an old computer and installed ChaletOS. Now my USB ports don't work. How can I fix this?

Question

I'm getting the following error message.

Failed to open "Samsung Flash Drive: XYZ".
Error mounting /dev/sdb1 at /media/user/XYZ: unknown filesystem type 'exfat'.

Answer 1

I suspect the ports are working. It's just that your OS does not recognize exFAT. You can add support for it though. Try whatever's in this link.



https://itsfoss.com/mount-exfat/

Answer 2

when any drive is Formatted, a Filing System is created. there are many choices of filing systems and ExFAT is one used by LINUX. Since ChaletOS is a form of Linux then it could be that its a cut down version and needs a few extra parts installed to get the full read/write support see link below.

Answer 3

Exfat is not an opensource filesystem, it's owned and in some instances licensed by Microsoft.  There are a number of OSs that come with no ExFAT support at install and require you to install it from a third-party repository.  I've no experience with ChaletOS but you can probably download the drivers from its package manager.

Answer 4

https://www.howtogeek.com/235655/how-to-mount-and-use-an-exfat-drive-on-linux/