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Solve : File History not detecting my data drive??

Answer» <html><body><p>Hi everyone,<br/><br/>After a rather painful upgrade to Windows 10, I'm finally running on my <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/new-1114486" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about NEW">NEW</a> operating <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/system-238321" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about SYSTEM">SYSTEM</a>. Something that shocked me when I was running Windows 8.1 was the fact that file history was not running. I had become so used to being <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/automatically-2451134" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about AUTOMATICALLY">AUTOMATICALLY</a> protected by Windows 7's equivalent that I just assumed windows 8.1 had turned it on. As it would seem, nope. So I enabled it for a network share on my NAS server while I was doing backups, then when that finished I shut down the server.<br/><br/>Now that I'm on Windows 10, I'd like to set the File History destination to my internal data hard drive. For some reason, File History does not list it as a usable drive. In case it may have been a space issue, I cleaned it up so now 200+GB of free space is available. Still no go. I read that creating a folder named "FileHistory" on the drive and sharing it may magically do the trick (??) but not luck there either.<br/><br/>Has anyone run into this problem, and can any solutions be offered?You are right. It does not always work like you want.<br/>Of a number of articles, this one looks good.<br/><a href="https://www.winhelp.us/file-history-in-windows-8.html"><br/>File History in Windows 8, 8.1 and 10</a><br/> Quote</p><blockquote>Windows 8/8.1 and 10 File History is a bit like Previous Versions in Windows Vista and 7, but it has to be set up and configured first. Unlike the System Restore-integrated file recovery in older Windows versions, File History keeps most backups on a separate hard drive, removable drive (external hard drive or USB stick) or network drive - only a small amount of previous versions are kept on the drive where Windows is installed.</blockquote> The article goes on  to give a full <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/tutorial-662236" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about TUTORIAL">TUTORIAL</a> with screen shots.  Your backups ought to be on a separate hard drive.<br/><br/> Quote from: Geek-9pm on August 17, 2015, 01:54:19 PM<blockquote>You are right. It does not always work like you want.<br/>Of a number of articles, this one looks good.<br/><a href="https://www.winhelp.us/file-history-in-windows-8.html"><br/>File History in Windows 8, 8.1 and 10</a>The article goes on  to give a full tutorial with screen shots.  Your backups ought to be on a separate hard drive.<br/></blockquote> <br/>Right, and that's why I'm confused. Going by the listed options:<br/><br/> Quote<blockquote>File History keeps most backups on a separate hard drive, removable drive (external hard drive or USB stick) or network drive<br/></blockquote> <br/>It <em>should</em> be detecting at least two additional drives; I have my system SSD, a SATA <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/hdd-479551" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about HDD">HDD</a> for storing programs and some user files, then my larger SATA HDD for storing backups. I'm not sure how much the article can help me at this point - I'm pretty familiar with setting up File History by now, and I'm fairly certain that my larger HDD (which I refer to as my data drive, sorry if that was confusing) would be available.</body></html>


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