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ADD11-2121 Can't Read exFAT disks ... wipes them clean.

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I recently added a Renesas USB 3.0 controller to my system and purchased two 8GB USB3.0 flash drives. I formatted them in exFAT, and just discovered that with an exFAT drive plugged in, Disk Director Home 11 (build 2121) can't display my system's drive layout. It displays no drives or partitions. Further, after simply opening and closing ADD11-2121, Windows required me to format the flash drive before I could use it again. It seems that Disk Director 11 wiped it clean!

Fortunately this flash drive only had a data backup on it, and I created a new one after formatting the drive as NTFS, since I now leave it plugged in all the time.

ATI2012-5545 also fails to respond when I have an exFAT flash drive plugged in.

I thought these versions of Acronis apps were supposed to be fully Windows 7 compliant?

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exFAT isn't used very much as yet even by Microsoft or other products. As you've discovered neither DD11 or TIH/ABR are capable of recognising exFAT.

I suspect that Microsoft might charge a hefty licence fee for developers to gain access to the file format details. Note that the Linux implementation is a reverse engineered one, probably not a route Acronis would want to go down at this moment.

This being the case, why then is exFAT listed in ATIH help as one of the recognised formats? I noted however that when trying to use Nonstop Backup to an exFAT disk, I received the message that ATIH "Cannot backup to a non-NTFS partition". I'm rather miffed at this since I bought the Plus Pack for GUID....

@both posters.

Hmm, maybe I'm wrong, I haven't tried exFat with 2012, it certainly didn't work with 2011 and it was never mentioned during the beta.

I wonder if exFAT was something that was intended to be implemented and withdrawn at the last moment as the NSB retention editing facility.

@Nigel,

GPT should work, are you saying it doesn't? I don't have a disk prepared as such, and my BIOS isn't EFI knowledgeable to test that either.

I'm far from an expert so forgive my poor understanding but I had the impression that exFAT's implementation didn't come until GUID. As far as I can tell, there's been no issues with the partitioning under GUID but exFAT is a no-no. The ATIH2011 help system expressly cites exFAT as a supported file system which is why I went ahead and wiped a number of disks and moved over to GUID/exFAT. Only then did the penny drop....

I ran ATIH2012 for a grand total of 3 days before I abandoned it due to the intolerable bugs and moved back to 2011. I didn't get the opportunity to interrogate the help under 2012 to see if exFAT's status had changed, I was too busy crapping myself when my nonstop backup, having updated it to 2012, completed and the .tib was zero bytes..... Not a happy bunny...

@both posters,

I've just found out the exFAT option only works if you select sector by sector method of imaging.

Now I'm confused, these posts are in the Disk Director forum, could the thread starter please edit that post and transfer the whole thread to the 2012 forum.

Thanks

ExFAT STILL not supported by Acronis.  Heck, even my DJI Phantom 3A supports, even formats as ExFat for SD cards greater than 32GB.   Come on Acronis, get with the program.

Hallo,

ich dachte, dass ADD 12.5 endlich in der Lage sein wird, ordentlich mit exFAT formatierten Partitionen umzugehen.

Leider habe ich mich getäuscht.

Diverse andere Partitionsmanager (selbst kostenlose) können das!

Nun strengt euch mal an liebe Acronis-Macher.

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I've added your feedback to the existing feature request for the product managers to review, thank you!