Windows 10: Windows 10 Storage Pool Uprade Mistake

On my laptop I have a main m.2 256gb ssd C: and a secondary 1TB hhd D: in a basic non-RAID configuration. I was attempting to back up my photos in the D: drive with a 512gb ssd E: in an enclosure adapter when an error came up after connecting the E: drive. The error showed that the E: was not being recognized correctly and prompted to upgrade the storage pool. The E: showed up normal in "This PC", but I did not to run the risk of my photos being corrupted, so I upgraded the pool to get rid of the error. A few seconds later my D: along with 800gb+ worth of raw photos and documents disappeared from "This PC" as well as the E: drive disappeared.


In Disk management the would be D: showed as unallocated. I first reverted Windows 10 to a previous version of about a month ago in hope that the settings would go back to normal, but nothing changed. I then changed the dive letter back to "D:" in hope that it would recognize it again. A "Local Disk D:" drive now shows in "This PC" but will not open. I check again in Disk Management and on the left side it now shows Disk 0, Basic, 931.39gb, online and the storage appears to be one whole partition with no details.

I have recently taken the D: drive out and have put it in a USB Dock on another laptop to recover the files with R-Studio, so I know all the files are still there. I would prefer to get the D: drive back to normal without formatting it, as I am not sure if all the files were successfully recovered and are not corrupted.

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How to remove a bad drive in Windows 10 storage spaces pool

Could someone list the steps involved in replacing a bad drive from a Windows 10 storage spaces pool? I cannot find any info on the Microsoft support site that is specific to Windows 10. Also, could you list the steps to remove a 'good' drive and replace
it with another drive if the process is different?

 

replacing a drive in storage pool

Hi Arni,

As you referring to replacement of failed drive under storage pool, we will help you with this issue.

Provide us additional information to assist you better with this issue:

• How exactly have you created a storage pool on your device?
• Which is the operating system installed on your device? Confirm to us if Windows 10.
• Is your device connected to Windows Server/ domain network?

Reply to the post with the required information and brief description about this issue for further assistance.

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create storage pool

I had a USB storage device that became damaged and unserviceable attached to my laptop I had a storage pool with this storage device . I deleted the storage device and did the necessary steps that i know to unattached the device from the memory. I plugged
in a new storage device and tried to create a new storage pool. I keep getting the error r unable to create because it is being used by other apps.