Windows 10: FileHistory Not Seeing F Drive?

So I have a new hard drive, earlier when I installed it FH recognized it and would allow me to use it. Few hours ago FH stopped backing up and glitched (File configuration error, I fixed it by deleting the config files but since then it no longer sees my new internal drive as a option to backup on it instead of the current external drive. If I change the drive letter it recognizes it, I'm currently using it on a lot of games and software so this is a weird issue as changing the letter will mess up a lot of programs and my installation....
Running Windows 10 Pro Version 20H2

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FileHistory not seeing hard drive

Hi,

I recently formatted a Partion on one of my internal that was being used for 'FileHistory' storage. I chose this option as the Partion was nearly full so I thought I would wipe the FileHistory's that were on the drive and start over fresh.

The problem I have now is that no matter what I try the 'FileHistory' does not show the Partion when I click on 'Select a Drive'.

I have reformatted the Drive/Partition several times and also done a full surface check but still 'FileHistory' refuses to acknowledge it's existance.

Any help would be really appreciated.

I am running Windows 10 Pro (Threshold 2)

Cheers

Derek

 

f drive

Hello Kathy,

Based on the information you have provided in your post; we need to do further investigation. To assist you better, we'd like to know the following:

• Have you tried using a third party software to manage the disk partition?
• Did you format the drive?

We suggest that you check for the drive in the Disk Management and look if it appears. Follow these steps:

• Log on as administrator or as a member of the Administrators group.
• Press Windows+R key and type diskmgmt.msc and then click OK.

Look if the Drive F: appears and check if it is unallocated.

Looking forward to your update.

 

FileHistory stops working

Hello

In have FileHistory backup not working correctly.

After my desktop backup for the portioned drives C: and D: stopped say 6 weeks ago. I have tried a number of suggestions from the form but have not got things working until yesterday 27/6/2020.

After using the same USB extension drive to back up my laptop which worked.

I tried the same usb derive with the desktop and found that by selecting the drive as new a new list of folders to be backedup was created only for drive C: and the FileHistory back up worked again.

Now IF I add any folder on derive D: to the backup list FileHistory stops working.

If I remove the D: related folder FileHistory works again.

When FileHistory stops working event viewer shows the 1st error message .

In the past when FileHistory didn't work EV showed both errors.

Unable to scan user librariles for changes and perform backup.

C:\Users\pflet\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\FileHistory\Configuration\Config

File/directory was not backed up due to being encrypted or insefficent permissions.

D:\System Volume Information.

As enyone seen this?

Could this be the System volume information folder on D: ?

Can this folder be replaced / repaired ? I carn't see it being encrypted. Dont Know about permissions.

Thanks in advance. Paul