Windows 10: After deleting 2.5" SATA laptop drive from Storage Spaces pool, and deleting pool, drive no...

Rebooted, no help, no sign of formerly good drive appearing in either diskpart with subsequent 'list disk', and, no trace of it in 'disk management'...As this drive is in a 5.25" Icy Dock bay, shutdown, tested another 2.5" SATA in dock, no issues. Shutdown, reinserted WD drive, no sign of it!Suggestions, other than concluding 'removal of drive from Storage Spaces pool and deleting pool via Storage Spaces menus may be a permanent drive destroyer/nuker'? :

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storage pool is showing in disk management but not showing in control centre .iwant to delete storage pool .how i can delete this

Hello rajat,

My name is Hanem, an independent advisor, and I'm here to help you.

I'm sorry that you are experiencing this issue, and I will try my best to assist you.

Since there is no option to delete it via control panel, you can delete it either through settings or powershell, please follow the steps hereelete Storage Spaces pool from PowerShellTo delete a storage pool from PowerShell, use these steps:

1. Open Start.

2. Search for PowerShell, right-click the top result, and select the Run as administrator option.

3. Type the following command to view the storage pools available on Windows 10 and press Enter: Get-StoragePool

4. Type the following command to view the virtual disk in the storage pool and press Enter:

5. $stpool = (Get-StoragePool -FriendlyName "Storage pool")

Get-VirtualDisk -StoragePool $stpool

6. In the command, change “Storage pool” to the name of your pool.

7. Type the following command to remote the virtual disk from the pool and press Enter:

8. Remove-VirtualDisk -FriendlyName "Storage space"

9. In the command, change “Storage space” to the name of your space.

10. Press Y and enter to continue.

11. Type the following command to delete the storage pool with PowerShell and press Enter:

12. Remove-StoragePool -FriendlyName "Storage pool"

or

1. Open settings, click/tap on the System icon.

2.Click/tap on Storage on the left side, and click/tap on the Manage Storage Spaces link on the right side. (see screenshot below)

3. Perform the following actions to delete a storage space from a storage pool:

A) Expand open a storage pool you want to delete a storage space from.

B) Expand open Storage Spaces for the storage pool.

C) Click/tap on the storage space you want to delete.

D) Click/tap on Properties.

4. Click delete

5. Click/tap on Delete Space to confirm.

6. The storage space will now be deleted from the storage pool. You can now close Settings if you like

Feel free to reply on this thread if you still need further assistance, and I'll be more than happy to assist you.

 

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?

 

Not happy with Storage Pools.

New computer and upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows 7. I created a storage pool using 2 extra hard drives. It worked fine but I was unaware that by creating this pool I would lose the independent use of my files on Drive C. My normal Library files are
now mirrored with the 2 extra drives I used to create the storage pool. I thought my C Drive (Library-Documents, Pictures, Videos, Music, and Downloads) would stay separate from the storage pool and I could just copy files to my Storage Pool and delete them
from my C: Drive if I wanted to.

I hope I'm explaining myself sufficiently. In other words, I thought creating a Storage Pool made 2 extra hard drives into one and you could copy files from the C: Drive when you wanted. Also, be able to delete files from the C: Drive in order to not fill
it up so much. My C: Drive is a 512 GB SS drive. My 2 extra hard drives are 3TB each standard 7200 RPM SATA hard drives.

If this is how this works, I think I would rather have my drives back the way they were. Is there a way to reverse the Storage Pool?

Thanks.