{"id":1913,"date":"2016-10-28T07:27:20","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T07:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/?p=1913"},"modified":"2021-05-14T03:16:03","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T03:16:03","slug":"how-to-backup-exfat-partition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/how-to-backup-exfat-partition\/","title":{"rendered":"How to backup exFAT partition?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post introduces step-by-step guide to backup exFAT partition to an image files using free partition manager \u2013 PartitionGuru Free. If you want to backup exFAT partition, continue reading.<\/p>\n

How to backup\/image exFAT partition to an image file?<\/strong><\/h1>\n

PartitionGuru Free<\/a>, an all-inclusive program, is free partition manager, data recovery tool, and free backup software. It fully supports exFAT, FAT32, FAT16, FAT12 and NTFS file system. You can use it to do exFAT partition recovery<\/a>, data recovery, resize\/clone\/image\/backup exFAT partition. Step to backup exFAT partition with PartitionGuru Free:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Step 1<\/strong>: Install and launch PartitionGuru Free.<\/p>\n

Step 2<\/strong>: Select the exFAT partition you want to backup and click \u201cBackup Partition\u201d button from toolbar.\"backup-exfat-partition-01\"<\/p>\n

Step 3<\/strong>: Click \u201cSelect Image File\u201d button to set target folder to save image file and name this backup file. The image file can be saved on other hard drive or external hard drives.\"backup-exfat-partition-02\"<\/p>\n

This program supports full backup and incremental backup; if the partition is backed up for the first time, the backup type should be Full Backup. Besides, you can click \u201cSettings\u201d button to make advanced settings for the backup, such as choose backup mode, image file compression type, etc. PartitionGuru supports both sector-level and file-level backup; sector-level backup allows you to recover lost data from image file.<\/p>\n

Step 4<\/strong>: Click \u201cStart\u201d button on the backup window and click \u201cYes\u201d on the pop-up box. This free partition manager starts backing partition\/volume. Please do not close the program while it is backing up partition, and do not read or write data to the partition being backed up.<\/p>\n

Step 5<\/strong>: Click \u201cComplete\u201d button when backing up process finishes.\"backup-exfat-partition-06\"What is exFAT partition? <\/strong><\/p>\n

exFAT is in updated file system introduced by Microsoft in Windows Vista SP1. It\u2019s file size limitation increases to 16 EB (exabytes), while the file size limit is 4G in FAT32 partition. exFAT partition is compatible with both Windows and Mac OS, thus it is preferred by more users who want to store large files or use their disk under different operating systems. exFAT is mainly designed for formatting flash memory storage and other external devices. Thus it is not a huge competitor to NTFS on hard drive. As NTFS has been proven to be inefficient on flash memory, thus exFAT is the ideal choice when you want to store large<\/p>\n

Do we need to backup exFAT partition? <\/strong><\/h1>\n