Windows 10: Mistakenly changed D drive's Fs type to exFAT

Mistakenly changed D drive's Fs type to exFAT and now windows is not starting. The blue screen appers with options to repair, boot and start but non of them are working. Sharing bellow my partition information. I use windows 11.

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Formating to exFAT

Hi Taylor,

If you want to format an external hard drive or USB flash drive in exFAT, you can follow these steps:

• Press and hold Windows key + x on your keyboard. This open the context menu.
• Select Command Prompt (Admin).
• Type format g: /FS:exFAT and then Enter to begin formatting the G drive as exFAT

For any query, feel free to reach us.

 

D drive

Hi,

Based on the details you have provided us, it appears that there might be some corrupted contents on the said partition. We can also consider that this is caused by a virus.

For us to check if a certain virus is hiding your files, kindly follow the steps below:

• Type Command prompt in the search bar.
• Type-in the following command:
  
  attrib -h -r -s /s /d D:\*.*
• Press Enter to execute the command.

If you think that there is nothing important stored in it, then we suggest that you reformat your D drive so that you can use the free space for important files.

You can follow the steps below to start with the process:

• Click on the File Explorer.
• Select This PC.
• Right-click on your D drive, then click on Format.
• Follow the on-screen process to finish formatting the partition.

Let us know how it goes so that we can further assist you.

 

How do I format an internal hard drive to exFAT in Windows 10?

1. By Command prompt Format D: /A:64K /FS:ExFAT
   

64k is cluster size, D is target drive letter.

1. By Diskpart:
   
   list disk
   

select disk '#' (where # is the number of the targer drive)

If you want that for a partition:

If you want it for the whole drive just erase it all and make a single partition

active (you many not need to make it active, so you can skip this)