Windows 10: Access Disks that were previously used in Windows 10 Storage Pool

Hello Everyone, I am new to this and need your help in solving a nagging issue. Here we go:
We created a Win 10 Storage Pool with 6 GB WD Blue on windows 10 version 19H2, now we have a new computer running Windows 10 20H2 and can't seem to access those six previously used HDD. The HDD shows up in Disk Manager as Storage Pool and Protected. We have family photos, financial docu on this HDD, can anyone tell me if there is a way to get my files off these HDD without losing them? Help will be appreciated.

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How to remove external hard disk from storage pool on Windows 10

Hi Velen,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community.

I understand your concern about removing the external hard disk from storage pool, we will help you with this issue.

Try the below steps to: Remove a physical disk by using Windows PowerShell
and check if it helps.

• 
  Press Windows
  key from the keyboard, type Windows PowerShell and select
  Run as administrator.
  
• 
  Enter the command replacing <diskname> with the disk name:
  

• • 
    Set-PhysicalDisk -FriendlyName <diskname> -Usage Retired
    

(If the pool is clustered, you will need to run this command on the cluster node which has the cluster resource for the pool online.)

3. Prior to performing step 5, you must wait for all active repair jobs to complete. To monitor the status of repair jobs, type the following command:
Get-StorageJob

4. Type the following command: Remove-PhysicalDisk -FriendlyName <diskname>

5. Physically disconnect the old disk.

For further reference: Storage Spaces Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Hope it helps. Reply to the post with an updated status of this issue for further assistance.

 

Just lost a disk in my Storage Space pool, other two disks are no longer accessible

I have a 12 TB storage pool on my windows 10 machine, consisting of three 4TB WD Reds. One of them got disconnected somehow and wasn't being recognized by the pool. I checked all the cables to make sure nothing had come loose, which it hadn't. Then I noticed
I no longer had access to the pool in Storage Spaces settings. It's just showing me this:

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So, I removed the physical disk from my machine, and following an online guide, I used PowerShell to access the pool so that I could retire the drive. My next step is to buy a new drive and hopefully add it to the pool.

However, I fear all of my data may be gone now. I was using simple resiliency, so there was no redundancy set up. Even if I do put in a replacement, am I pretty much screwed?

 

The return of the Drive Extender - Windows 8 Pool disks

Linky link.

OK, the old version of Windows Home Server hade a technology called Drive Extender. You added disks to a pool of storage, so that you had several physical discs but only one logical "disc" (or pool or whatever they called it). Kinda like RAID, but simpler. Windows 8 will have a similiar thing, but a bit more powerful: Storage Spaces. From the article:

The good thing is that it will probably be included in both desktop and server versions of Win8. Now I want a Home Server based on Win8.