How to Perform Exfat File Recovery

• Can I Recover Data from exFAT Drive
• Recover Data from exFAT Drive in 3 Steps

Part 1 Can I Recover Data from exFAT Drive?

Because of its system suitability for both Windows and Mac computers and large file support features, exFAT system has been widely used in big storage media like USB flash drive and external hard drive. exFAT hard drive is easy to store files with a size of more than 4GB. However, data on your exFAT hard drive can still be lost because of deletion, drive formatting, system error, virus attack or drive corruption. Anyway, as long as lost data on your exFAT hard drive is not overwritten by new data, you’re likely to be able to retrieve them with the help of an exFAT file recovery software.

Wondershare Data Recovery, or Wondershare Data Recovery for Mac is such a tool that helps you to recover lost, deleted, formatted or corrupted data from an exFAT drive/partition. The power recovery features of this program enables you to recover all file types from your exFAT drive, including videos, audio files, photos, etc.

You can get the trial version of the exFAT file recovery software to recover exFAT drive data now!

Part 2 Perform exFAT File Recovery in 3 Steps

Now I’ll perform exFAT hard drive data recovery by using Windows version of Wondershare Hard Drive Data Recovery software. Mac version has a similar operation too.

Step 1 Select file types to recover data from the exFAT drive

After running Wondershare exFAT file recovery program on your computer, you’ll get an interface as follow, select the file typs you want to recover .

To recover deleted, formatted, lost or corrupted files from your exFAT drive, you can select “All File Types” option to begin.

Step 2 Scan your exFAT drive

Here you only need to select your exFAT drive in the "External Removable Device" section and click the “Start” button to begin detecting files on it.

If you’re going to recover data from storage media with exFAT system, you need to make sure it can be well-recognized by your computer.

Step 3 Recover Data from exFAT drive

After the deep scan, the found files on your exFAT drive will be listed in “File Type” or “Path” category after scanning. You can view file names to check whether your lost data can be reclaimed or not.

Then you only need to mark files you are going to recover from exFAT drive and click the “Recover” button to save them on your computer’s partition.