Windows 10: Help with Storage Space under Windows 10 Pro for workstations

I've had the newly built system running 24/7 for a year now running Plex under Windows 10 Pro. I recently upgraded to Workstation to take advantage of Storage Spaces. I have created a 6 drive 8tb storage pool using Parity/Refs file system. All has been working great, for 6 months, but the SSD my OS was installed on bit the dust. After replacing the SSD I went through installing 10 pro and then through the MS store upgraded to workstation all went fine and it's running great, But! Workstation doesn't see the storage pool or even the drives.


1.This PC=no drives shown

2. Disk management=no drives shown

3. Power shell=no drives show

4. Device manager=shows drives

5. USB disconnect in task bar=shows drives, but cannot disconnect them


I have a utility that verified the drives are running fine and the parity system seems to be intact. At this point I figured I would format the drives and start over, I do have a complete backup, but no go! Not even aftermarket type disk utilities can read or format the drives. So what am I to do next.


I hope some one has a trick up their sleeve to help me out, I would hate to have to trash nearly $1000.00 in drives.


Regards


Tony

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In Windows 10 Pro Storage Space, why can't I use ReFS with Parity?

According to discussion at Storage Spaces, Parity and ReFS

• ReFS in storage spaces is available only for two-way and three-way mirroring until Windows 10 Anniversary update incl.
  
  • see Wolfrevo's answer for workaround
    
• Creators update brought support for ReFS parity storage space
  
• Fall Creators update removes ReFS entirely from storage spaces
  
  • the AllowRefsFormatOverNonmirrorVolume workaround no longer works
    
  • all the ReFS functionality was moved to Windows 10 Pro for Workstations
    

 

Storage Spaces and Reinstalling Windows 10 Pro

I am planning on upgrading the hardware on my home media server (Plex). It runs on Windows 10 Pro (1809). My Storage Spaces disks are connected to my system via a dedicated RAID card, with the disks just configured as JBOD. It is a 16 disk pool comprising
36TB of raw storage, configured within Storage Spaces to have parity, so I have about 21TB of usable space. I would like to know what steps I need to take in order to ensure that, once I have upgraded the hardware and reinstalled Windows 10 Pro to my OS disk,
I can reconnect the RAID controller and have the Storage Spaces be recognized and accessible again. I cannot risk losing this data, and given the amount of it, making a copy beforehand is also not a possibility.

 

Windows 10 Pro for Workstations

Hello Alex,

There are certain steps that you can do to upgrade to Windows 10 Pro for Workstations. Kindly follow the methods provided by Andre Da Costa on October 24, 2017 on this

link and see if this will resolve your concern.

Get back to us if you need further assistance.