Windows 10: Storage Space not working

The issue/challenge/problem I have regards use of W10 Pro Storage Space

· Historically my desktop PC has a 250Gb SSD for all programs & a pair of 1Tb HDD’s for data storage, the latter pair were set up in a mirror format; for a variety of reasons the mirroring was failing & through some 3 months of discussion with Acronis I finally decided to remove the mirroring & manually, once a month, synchronise my 2 HDD’s & then place one off-line. And just to be really sure I don’t lose data, my system is backed up on-line with Carbonite & I also have a couple of 1Tb external USB HDD’s …..

· For a variety of historical reasons my prime HDD is formatted as dynamic NTFS, its partner as standard basic

· Having done some research, it appears the use of Storage Space is ideal for what I need to re-achieve, notably the 2 way mirroring of my HDD’s

· It was my understanding that Storage Space SS will work with existing disks containing data

· My first attempt at using SS resulted in an error 'cant create the pool, check drive connection & try again' ; the HDD I was intending to add to the storage pool was then rendered un-formatted

· A few more attempts were made but all with the same result; I am concerned that SS feels my drive connection maybe at fault despite that HDD being fully useable

· So, is the fact that the primary HDD is in ‘dynamic’ format upsetting the system or ….?

· Whilst I am happy to experiment with solutions to this problem, I am avoiding the re-formatting of my primary HDD as it is the location of my Outlook data & , perhaps more importantly some 300Gb of music & having to re-populate WMPlayer is time consuming …… However I will re-format this HDD if you feel it is critical



I hope the above information gives you an idea of ‘where I’m at’ & I’d fully appreciate some guidance from you in how to utilise SS which appears to be an ideal data management solution.



Thank you for your time & I look forward to hearing from you in due course.



Kind regards



Murray Maxwel

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External Drive using storage spaces does not work on my new Win 10 PC?

Hi Leo,

Storage Spaces not only increase storage over time as you add drivers to your PC, it will also help you in protecting your data from drive failures. To isolate your concern, we'd like to know if you were getting any error messages when trying
to connect the external drive to your new PC. Also, can you tell us what troubleshooting steps have you tried so far?

In the meantime, we suggest that you run the Hardware and Devices troubleshooter to perform a diagnostic process on your system that will check and fix issues related to Storage Spaces. To do this, please follow the steps below:

• Type troubleshooting in the Search bar, then press
  Enter.
  
• Click View all from the left pane.
  
• Locate and click Hardware and Devices to run the troubleshooter then follow the next steps.
  

Furthermore, here is a link for more information about the Storage
Spaces in Windows 10.

We'll be looking forward to your response.

 

Storage Spaces Parity Repair?

Many thanks, muchomurka!

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Unfortunately, following your suggested procedure it appears the Storage Spaces parity error persists.





Any other suggestions?

 

Problem with Storage Space

Funny...on actually reading the title on that unrecognized status disk, it is titled Microsoft Storage Space. I was ust surprised to see it listed in the drive list.