How To Recover Data From ExFAT Drive on Windows & macOS?

ExFAT (Extensible File Allocation Table) is a file system introduced by Microsoft in 2006 and optimized for SD card, external harddrives, flash memory devices like USB flash drives. exFAT file is a widely used file system as it is compatible with both MacOS and Windows. For SD cards and USB drives that have over 128 Gb storage capacity, exFAT partition is created by default.

Accordingly, more people are using exFAT hard drives, the greater chance they are subject to data loss. Take one user's story for an example:

"I have an external drive that was formatted as exFAT. After a long term use, it does not show up on my system now when I plug it into the computer. When I run Disk Utility, the drive appears on my system but a message pops up with "error: Disk Utility can't repair this disk. Backup as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backup files. Is it the only thing that I can do now? Please tell me how to recover data from exFAT hard drive? Is it dead or not?

Have you lost data from your exFAT drive? Are you worried about recovering the data from your exFAT drive? Find below the methods to effortlessly recover from exFAT drive from both Windows and macOS. Before moving on to solutions given in the section below, let us first understand the common causes for data loss in exFAT partition

Reason for data loss in exFAT partition or drive

Below listed are highly reported causes by users across the world as to why there is lose data in the exFAT partition or drive

External Factors for data loss from exFAT partition

• Bad Sector:
• Virus or malware attack

Human Mistakes for Data loss from exFAT drive

• Accidental deletion:
• Intentional Deletion

In the section below you will learn about the hassle-recovery tool to recover data from exFAT drive

How Do I Recover files from exFAT?

To overcome such data loss issues from exFAT drives, the Remo Recover Tool for Hard Drives has been designed to formatted, deleted, and corrupted exFAT drives on both Windows and Mac systems

Remo Recover gets back deleted or lost files from various storage devices. This utility is popular for fighting data loss scenarios and is perfect for recovering data from Windows and macOS versions. It recovers Word files, text files, ZIP files and other file types easily within a few minutes. . Also, along with this you can also make use of this software to perform data recovery from pen drive, memory card, FireWire drive, iPod, and others.

Furthermore, the application is capable of recovering files from USB drives, internal hard drives, etc, when they turn RAW after severe corruption.

Note : The recovery tool is compatible with both Windows 10, 8,7 etc and macOS version like Big Surr, Catalina and prior versions. Aso if you are wondering how to recover data from FAT32, click here.

How to Recover data from exFAT drive in Windows?

To recover data from ExFAT drive, download and install Remo Partition Recovery Software and follow the below mentioned steps:

• Launch the tool, click on Recover Partitions and select the ExFAT drive you want to recover data.



• Click on Scan start the ExFAT recovery process
• Now, the software scans the selected drive to find missing or deleted partitions.
• After completion of scanning process, it displays the list of recovered files from ExFAT.You can see the data at your preferred choice of Data View or File Type View



• At last, you can preview the recovered files with Preview option.
• Save the Recovery Session to save the scanned information that saves your valuable time, as you need not have to rescan the drive again and again



• If you are satisfied with the recovery results, then activate the license key of the software and Save the recovered files at your desired location.

How to Recover Data from exFAT drive in macOS

• Download Remo Mac File Recovery Tool and open the application
• Click on Recover Deleted Files or Recover Lost files options
• Select the drive or volume from which the data is lost or deleted
• The tool will start the scanning process and start searching for deleted files.
• Preview recovered files before recovery to evaluate the chances of recovery
• Later, you will be able to Save the Recovery session.

External storage is very helpful in storing crucial data always on hands and formatting it with ExFAT makes it compatible with both Apple and Windows environment. Nevertheless, these devices must be maintained with care. As discussed earlier a storage device has to face numerous risks that will damage the device.

This article makes it clear that there are various ways to repair a damaged storage device but, it is hard to take care of data on it. Although, there will be a situation that you cannot control and result in data loss. In any of those situations, efficient data recovery software like Remo Recover will help you recover ExFAT partition.