BeagleBone Black Rev D does not show up as Mass storage in Windows 11

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I am just starting to learn how to use BBB rev D and the instruction manuals and the BeagleBone Getting Started actual states that it is accessible as a Mass Storage when I connect it through USB cable to the laptop, but I don’t see anything like that in the Windows File Explorer (Windows 11). However, I am able to SSH into 192.168.7.2 in PuTTY.

I also tried connecting it to a Ubuntu VM via VirtualBox, again I am able to SSH to it but the BBB doesn’t get recognized as a Mass Storage.

I want to know if the BBB Rev D version has been modified in such a way that it doesn’t get recognised as a Mass Storage to avoid Filesystem Corruption or other vulnerabilities ?

Thank you !

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No the USB mass storage service is no longer enabled by default

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Yes, it pains me to say it, but most of what you’ll read on that particular page
is no longer valid, or just plain wrong. No sugarcoating possible.
We’ll have to do a major rewrite, so thank you for pointing that out!

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Yeah, thank you for pointing that out. It will be quite difficult for newbies like to understand that.

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Thank you for the info.