File History will automatically back up critical folders and files in Windows and help you restore them.

Why does File History not recognize my drive? File History is a backup feature in Windows devices that allows users to back up data to an external hard disk or a network location.

Windows own File History is all most users need to keep their vital data backed up, but with version 11, Microsoft has made backing up data not found in the standard system libraries less intuitive.

Windows 8 can natively mount ISOs, and Task Manager is much improved -- and, perhaps most importantly, Windows 8 now has a built-in, continuous backup tool called File History.