Windows 10: Change Storage Space in Storage Pool in Windows 10

How to: Change Storage Space in Storage Pool in Windows 10

How to Change Storage Space in Storage Pool in Windows 10


Information add more drives to the storage pool.

This tutorial will show you how to change the name, drive letter, and size of a storage space in a storage pool in Windows 10.

You must be signed in as an administrator to change a storage space.



Here's How:

1. Open Settings, click/tap on the System icon, click/tap on Storage on the left side, and click/tap on the Manage Storage Spaces link on the right side. (see screenshot below)


Note You can also open the Control Panel (icons view), and click/tap on the Storage Spaces icon instead.





2. Click/tap on the Change settings button, click/tap on Yes if prompted by UAC, and click/tap on the Change link for the storage space in the storage pool you want to make changes to. (see screenshot below)



3. Change the name if you want for this storage space. (see screenshot below step 6)

4. Change the drive letter if you want for this storage space. (see screenshot below step 6)

5. Change the maximum storage space size if you want for this storage space. (see screenshot below step 6)

6. When finished, click/tap on the Change storage space button at the bottom to apply your changes. (see screenshot below)






That's it,
Shawn


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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?

 

When adding a journal for storage spaces, is the journal added to the storage pool or a the storage space?

I'm planning to create 2 storage spaces, 1 for backup and 1 for my main data. I was going to add 1 journal to each storage space, but it looks like the journal applies to the storage pool, not the storage space. Is that the case? if it is, is the better
approach to add 2 SSD drives to the storage pool as journals? If I add 2 drives as journals, how do I change the friendly name of the drives? Both of my drives that I want to use as journals have the same exact name.

Thanks,

Mike

 

Storage spaces recovery

For interest:

Move Storage Spaces from Windows 10 Pro to Windows Server 2016 Essentials

But I note:

What Windows build/edition are you using on your old PC, and what on your new?

More:
Can you move Storage Spaces pools between computers?

 

Windows 10 Storage Spaces

Question;

Have a RAID 0 storage pool in Windows 10. The storage pool has 952 GB of usable space, it currently has 6.06 GB of space used. I ran a system clean-up which wrote data to securely erase empty hard drive space. Now I get a warning that my storage pool is
full. I wrote a large group of files approximately 41 GB to the space to verify there wasn't an actual limitation. After all the files copied without issue I deleted them and noticed that the pool went from no capacity to 911 GB in use, the amount that was
written and then deleted.

I have searched but not come across this issue in any internet searches. Perhaps I am not searching for the correct terminology?

Any suggestions for correcting the storage spaces error without affecting the data on the pool? The reason of concern is that the drive has a SoildWorks vault space and I would prefer not to delete it and have to recreate it.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

 

Storage pool

Hello,

Storage Spaces is a technology in Windows and Windows Server that can help protect your data from drive failures. It is conceptually similar to RAID, implemented in software. You can use Storage Spaces to group three or more drives together into a storage pool
and then use capacity from that pool to create Storage Spaces. These typically store extra copies of your data so if one of your drives fails, you still have an intact copy of your data. If you run low on capacity, just add more drives to the storage pool.

In setting up a storage space, it's recommended that you use a hard drive that doesn't contain important files as the drive will be formatted to mirror the host drive.

For more information regarding Storage Spaces, read this
FAQ page.

Hope the information I provided helps.