Trying to use the Backup feature but "No usable drives found"

bighair said:

i had the same problem, but in my case it was that i have used the drive for my music files and have entered the location in windows
media player, as soon i removed that, then it see the drive.
you have to be sure you have not entered the drive in some kind of libary.

That did it! I had a "Documents" folder and a "Music" folder under "This PC" that were mapped to the USB drive. Once I changed the location (to where I really wanted them), I was able to see my USB drive. Thank you!

Looking at your Z drive .....in your screen shot, that drive is not activated so to speak, all you did was format it, but if you look at all your other drives in your pic, that WORK ....notice that their are no lines going thru them in your Disk Management screen. Its not an active NTFS partition at the moment. You should download MiniTool Partition Manager and use that Free program to fix your drive.
Much easier than windows disk manager ....just a suggestion. :)

OldMike65 said:

Looking at your Z drive .....in your screen shot, that drive is not activated so to speak, all you did was format it, but if you look at all your other drives in your pic, that WORK ....notice that their are no lines going thru them in your Disk Management screen. Its not an active NTFS partition at the moment. You should download MiniTool Partition Manager and use that Free program to fix your drive.
Much easier than windows disk manager ....just a suggestion. :)

The Z: drive partition only appeared that way because that was the one he had highlighted by clicking on it.

happy to help you.

ARAMP1 said:

That did it! I had a "Documents" folder and a "Music" folder under "This PC" that were mapped to the USB drive. Once I changed the location (to where I really wanted them), I was able to see my USB drive. Thank you!

NavyLCDR said:

The Z: drive partition only appeared that way because that was the one he had highlighted by clicking on it.

Ahh ok. ....my mistake .....but looks like its working now .....that's all that counts. :)