Windows 10: Drive characteristics for Storage Spaces

Going through Hell with Win10. Installed my dual 2TB drives, formatted them, and tried to create a mirrored Storage Space. System claimed "No drives that work with Storage Spaces are available." So I used the mirrored RAID system instead. But every folder I create is read-only and I've not been able to fix the issue.

So I'm back to wanting to try Storage Spaces. Does anyone know the requirements for the disks? Trying to figure out why Windows won't let me use these disks, even though they're identical, both newly formatted (not quick formatted), and were in a RAID array in my old HTPC/server.

Thanks

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Windows Storage Spaces Drive Offline for "Critical Write Errors"

Hi George, I posted it in technet and a Microsoft rep would ask for a log, I'd provide it, then wait a few days, and then they'd ask for another log, and another. I ended up using EaseUS data recovery software to get the most important stuff out of the
"array" and switched my setup over to a StableBit DrivePool. At least with that software raid everything is stored in a ntfs formatted drive, so recovery should be easier if ever needed again. Very dissatisfied with Microsoft's support on this!

 

Windows Storage Spaces Drive Offline for "Critical Write Errors"

Hi Matt,

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Finally figured out I had already formatted the drives and Storage Spaces requires disks with no partitions. Not sure why in hell Microsoft can't have SS identify the issue instead of just telling us the drives won't work.