Windows 10: Lost access to ReFS formatted Storage Pool after moving to another Windows 11 Pro install

Hello,I had a Windows 11 Pro computer, and on that compute years ago, I set up a Storage Spaces pool 2 mirrored drives and formatted the filesystem as ReFS. Seems easy enough. It worked great for many years. Originally I set it up in Windows 10 Pro, then updated to Windows 11 Pro, then upgraded the pool...no issues.Then, I got a new motherboard/CPU/memory upgrade, installed Windows 11 Pro, activated it, and then plugged in my 2 pool drives, same order and same SATA locations. Storage Spaces found them and re-set-up the pool easily. Hooray.However, when I click on the drive, it says:"This ver

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Vhdx drives inside refs storage pool

Trying to find out if this is good practice and if I will retain the benefits of having a mirrored refs storage space pool. I wish to have a mirrored pool using 4 physical drives formatted with refs. This will be over provisioned for future expansion.
I want to have 2 vhdx drives inside of this pool. These will also be over provisioned. Will saving everything to my vhdx which is formatted ntfs be fine inside of my refs pool. I have tested this out with many file writes and benchmarks but its all short term
and i cant simulate corrupted data on one drive.

 

Moving a ReFS storage pool to new hardware

Hi,

Thank you for posting your question in the Microsoft Community.

I suggest you to refer below articles:

1:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/compatibility/resilient-file-system?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396

2:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/refs/refs-overview

However your questions seems to be more appropriate for the TechNet forums. Please post your question here:

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/home

Regards,

Suman.B

Microsoft Community-Moderator.

 

Storage Pool missing

Hello.

I had four 4TB drives in a 8TB Storage Pool mirrored setup.

I was trying to use the "Remove"-option to replace one of the disks. After clicking it, Windows became unresponsive and then bluescreen. When Windows booted back up, the Storage Pool was missing, and the physical disks not accessible anymore. Missing in
disk manager and my computer, but not Device manager. They are still listed there.

Get-Physicaldisk reports the disks as Starting, OK but Health status is Unknown. CanPool is false. Get-Virtualdisk reports nothing.

This setup was (unfortunately?) formatted with ReFS back in 8.1 years ago, which was nothing more than an experiment at the time and I just kept filling up not really thinking about it.