{"id":1924,"date":"2016-11-14T08:26:01","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T08:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/?p=1924"},"modified":"2021-05-14T03:18:58","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T03:18:58","slug":"how-to-clone-copy-exfat-partition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/how-to-clone-copy-exfat-partition\/","title":{"rendered":"How to clone \/ copy exFAT partition?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This page includes step-by-step guide to clone \/ copy exFAT partition. If you want to clone your exFAT disk or partition, continue reading.<\/p>\n

Overview of cloning \/ copying exFAT partition<\/strong><\/h1>\n

\u201cI have a WD external hard drive with 1TB exFAT partition which stores my photos, collections and other media. I formatted it to exFAT file system so that I can see and edit data on both Mac and Windows PC. Recently, it became slow and I\u2019m afraid it\u2019ll stop working someday. I just bought another WB external hard drive with capacity 2TB. Is there any easy method that can clone everything on the 1TB exFAT disk (nearly 800GB used) to the 2TB disk? I don\u2019t want to do the copy thing manually.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

Eassos partition manager to clone exFAT partition<\/strong><\/h1>\n

PartitionGuru<\/a><\/strong> is a professional and versatile partition manager which includes nearly all functions you may use in managing partition, data recovery and data backup. It\u2019s able to get lost data, resize partition, clone disk, repair bad sector, etc. on NTFS \/ FAT32 \/ exFAT disks and partitions.<\/p>\n

This partition manager has the ability to clone exFAT partition and disk, backup exFAT partition<\/a> to image file, resize \/ extend \/ split exFAT drive. With PartitionGuru you can manage disk and partition in an easier way.<\/p>\n

Steps to clone exFAT partition<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Step 1<\/strong>: Install PartitionGuru and connect the exFAT disk to computer.<\/p>\n

Step 2<\/strong>: Launch PartitionGuru and you can see the interface that displays backup information of partition and disks on your PC.<\/p>\n

Step 3<\/strong>: Click \u201cTools\u201d from menu and select \u201cClone Partition\u201d. If you want to clone the entire disk, then select \u201cClone Disk\u201d. \"clone-exfat-partition-01\"<\/p>\n

Step 4<\/strong>: Select source partition that you want to clone and target partition which is used to store cloned data.\"clone-exfat-partition-04\"<\/p>\n

Step 5<\/strong>: Select clone mode from \u201cCopy all sectors\u201d \u201cCopy all valid sectors according to the layout if the file system\u201d and \u201cCopy all files\u201d. The file mode is sector-by-sector copy.<\/p>\n

Step 6<\/strong>: Click \u201cOK\u201d button and wait until the cloning process completes.<\/p>\n

Why exFAT partition is popular?<\/strong><\/h1>\n

exFAT was initially designed for break the limitation on FAT32, thus it is popular on flash drives which needs to store files whose single size is larger than 4GB. Though it is not mainly designed for hard drive, it is still used by many users who want to use hard drive on both MAC and PC. That\u2019s because exFAT is compatible with both Windows and MAC.<\/p>\n

The default file system format for hard drives in Windows is NTFS which is readable only on OS X, not writable. Windows can\u2019t even read HFS+, the default file system on MAC. FAT32 works for both Windows and MAC, but it has a 4GB size limit per file, thus exFAT is a better option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This page includes step-by-step guide to clone \/ copy exFAT partition. If you want to clone your exFAT disk or partition, continue reading. Overview of cloning \/ copying exFAT partition \u201cI have a WD external hard drive with 1TB exFAT … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[527,525,526],"class_list":["post-1924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-pg","tag-clone-exfat-disk","tag-clone-exfat-partition","tag-copy-exfat-partition","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1924"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4827,"href":"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions\/4827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}