File History will not recognize my new drive D:

WingerWalt

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Hi,

I recently moved my Windows 8.1 operating system from my old, crowded C: drive to a much bigger drive D: which originally held my file history file. The move changed Drive C: to D: and D: to C: with the new drive C: being the new boot drive. I then wiped the old C: boot drive and reformatted it. The operating system now works flawlessly with one exception.

What I discovered was that File History cannot recognize the new drive D:. When I attempt to select it, it comes up with drive D: is not recognized. Please try to select another drive, or words to that effect which doesn't work.

I realize I deleted the old File History file but didn't think there would be a problem for the File History program to recreate a new file.

Does anyone know of a way to allow File History to recognize the internal drive D: ?

Walt
 
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My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Asus Home Built
    CPU
    AMD Sempron Processor 2600+ 1.60 GHz
    Memory
    2.00 GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    ATI Radeon HD 4600 Series
    Browser
    Windows Explorer
    Antivirus
    Windows Defender
You said you reformatted the new Drive D:. What did you format it to?

WAX
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Pro/LinuxMint/Mac OS X
    CPU
    Intel i5
    Motherboard
    MSI Z87
    Memory
    8GB Kingston
    Monitor(s) Displays
    LG
    Hard Drives
    SSD-30GB
    SSD-240GB (Root Drive C:\)
    HDD-1Tb
    Keyboard
    Logitec
    Mouse
    Logitec
I actually wiped it first as it was easier to do, I then reformatted it as an NTFS drive. I wasn't worried about the file history that was on it and figured the program would simply recognize the drive and start from scratch.

The reason I did this was because this drive was too small for the operating system to work with and I had a fairly good size drive with nothing much on it that was already installed in the computer. I simply switched places for the operating system.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Asus Home Built
    CPU
    AMD Sempron Processor 2600+ 1.60 GHz
    Memory
    2.00 GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    ATI Radeon HD 4600 Series
    Browser
    Windows Explorer
    Antivirus
    Windows Defender
Try using diskpart from an administrator command prompt, set focus on the drive you want the os to see and use the assign command to mount it to whatever drive letter you want. That might make it visible to win8's file history.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    windows 8.1 pro
    Computer type
    Tablet
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Microsoft Surface Pro 1
    CPU
    Intel I5
    Motherboard
    Microsoft
    Memory
    4 gb
    Graphics Card(s)
    Intel
    Mouse
    Cheap Bluetooth 5 button
    Browser
    IE 11
    Antivirus
    Windows Defender
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