not finding my external drive disks as source
I had 2 backups running on my windows 11 PC, one for me C drive and one for an external disk with 5 drive letters configured on it. My destination drive failed so I obtained a new one. The existing backups would not work to that drive because it could not find the previously backed up files, so I deleted the backup tasks and tried to set up new ones. I was able to set up a new backup of my C drive without any problem. However, when I try to set up a backup of the partitions on my other external drive, those drives do not show up in the list of potential sources. The only drives which show up as available sources are the C drive and the I drive (which is my backup destination). The other drive letters show up fine in File Explorer.

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I figured it out. I had to use 'files and folders' as the source instead of 'disks and partitions'. Not quite sure why 'disks and partitions' did not see the disks/drives which 'files and folders' did see, but I'm not going to worry about it.
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I have had some odd experiences with Windows 11 and USB drives recently. Windows was not mounting partitions on USB HDDs, went into disk management and manually assigned drive letters. I know I had the problem with my Win 11 Pro (Insider) and possibly a Win 11 Pro PC. But this does not seem to be the case here. It could be that the drive has gone to sleep; sometimes they do not wake up when they should - check the USB power settings.
Ian
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craig zabell wrote:I figured it out. I had to use 'files and folders' as the source instead of 'disks and partitions'. Not quite sure why 'disks and partitions' did not see the disks/drives which 'files and folders' did see, but I'm not going to worry about it.
Hello!
Thanks for sharing what helped to solve the issue.
Best regards.
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