Windows 10: Error When Creating Storage Space "Can't Delete Storage Space"

Trying to create a basic Storage Space. No parity, mirroring, or anything. Just a bunch of disks. All disks are functioning normally and have been formatted etc. When I add them to the pool and create the storage space I get the error I've screenshotted below, "Can't Delete Storage Space".


Why is it trying to delete the Storage Space in the creation process?


What can I do to create the Storage Space successfully?


Thanks for your help.




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Cannot access Storage Space


I've created a problem with Storage Spaces by changing the drive letter in Windows 10. This has caused a Storage Spaces error, and I can no longer see the Storage space in File Explorer.

Disk Management shows the drive as unallocated.

I now have the following situation. The 2 drives in the storage space are the ones shown as 931.5GB (or Disk 4 in the Management image). (it was originally set up as 10Tb but only 2 x 2tb physical disks initially)










Any suggestions as to whether I can correct this. Thanks

Colin

 

Storages Spaces Configuration

I've found a ton of info for Windows Server and often encountered that it applies to Windows 10 as well but there are several differences and there is a lot of the technical stuff that I'm having a hard time understanding. I just found two similar articles
that helped me:

• How to Use Windows 10’s Storage Spaces to Mirror and Combine Drives
• https://www.windowscentral.com/how-use-storage-spaces-windows-10
• Another good article is at Storage Spaces explained: a great feature, when it works but it is a bit outdated.

I now have some success. I completed phase 1 of my drive testing and shut my system down. While it was down I removed the LSI card with the five drives and then booted my system. Now I can create a Storage Space on the three drives I freed up that are directly
connected to my MB. At this time I don't know if the LSI card was the reason I could not previously create the storage space. However I think I'm on the way.

I was just watching a video about Storage Spaces and the speaker stated that if you have either software or hardware RAID on the PC then you will encounter issues with Storage Spaces. At this time I'm assuming that this is why I could not create the Storage
Space with the LSI card installed. If I could get into the BIOS of the card (previous attempts failed and I need to contact LSI and see if they can help) and turn off the RAID function and hopefully use it just as a controller card WITHOUT the RAID then it
should work.

I just encountered a failure. Following is my setup using three drives (1-3TB, 1-4TB, 1-6TB)





Following is my failure, in the above image I had clicked the "Create storage space" button, a window pops up "Creating storage space" and quickly changes to "Formatting Storage space" for about 10-20 seconds, then changes to "Deleting Storage space" and
then to "Can't delete the storage space". I'm tired and I'm giving up for tonight.





Ops forgot to mention. I was able to create a mirror but not a three way mirror or not the Parity (this is what I want).

 

New with Storage Space

Sorry,

But you don't understand what I'm saying. I received was an error involving low resiliency. I don't know what else to do but to backup my storage space pool and try again. How do I do that?

Sincerely,

Jay Burch