Ubuntu 18.04 does not mount 2TB exFat drive even after installing exfat-fuse exfat-utils

Question

I've bought a new Seagate Expansion Portable Drive 2TB with exFat format. It works normally on Windows. On Ubuntu 18.04 I tried to mount the HD but failed.

I found advice to install exfat-fuse and exfat-utils (exfat 1.2.8). I've done that and still the HD is not mounting.

I tried to format the hd to NTFS but failed. I formatted it back with success to exFat. Still Ubuntu does not mount the HD. On disk it just mention 2TB block device. No partition.

Tried to format using mkfs.exfat but I get an Input/Output error. Checking on Windows for drive error found nothing wrong.

Solution

Just press Ctrl+Alt+t and When your terminal appears, Type below command and boom:

sudo apt-get install exfat-fuse exfat-utils

Unplug your exFat external flash and then plug it again. This way settled my issue. Hope helps you.

Comments

[DrMoishe Pippik]

How did you install exFAT? See mangolassi.it/topic/17293/ubuntu-18-04-live-exfat/2

[starplateena]

I install using sudo apt install exfat-fuse exfat-utils. Then get exfat-fuse and exfat-utils 1.2.8.

[DrMoishe Pippik]

As in the reference, add PPA: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:relan/exfat

[starplateena]

Already tried and the result: Error reading keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/…: Not Found and error on update: Err:8 ppa.launchpad.net/relan/exfat/ubuntu bionic Release 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.95.83 80]

[starplateena]

already tried. See comment above.