Windows 10: Storage confusion

While i was trying to add drives like d and e to my new laptop i found my this pc shows 366gb free out of 449gb while my disk management shows me that i can only shrink my c drive by 1551mb. Like what is this? And why is this and how to solve this. Someone please explain and guide me.

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Storage Spaces is confusing! Help?

Hi Chuxter,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

I understand your concern, however I suggest you to go to Disk management and check if the drives are available.

• Press Windows key + X.
• Select Disk Management and check the free storage.

I suggest you to perform Hardware and Device Troubleshooter.

• Click on Start icon or hit
  Windows logo and click on Settings.
• Type Troubleshooting and select
  troubleshooting.
• Click on Hardware and Sound and select
  Hardware and Devices and click on next and follow the on-screen instructions.

Before cleaning your drives make sure you take a backup of it. You can transfer your stuffs to One Drive.

OneDrive help for Windows 8.1 - Microsoft Support

Get back to us with the updated status, we’ll be glad to assist you further.

 

Storage Spaces is confusing! Help?

I have an old 5-drive storage box that I have been using for years. It is a JBOD. It has a SiliconImage SIL4726 Raid controller chip. The box is connected via eSATA.

I recently upgraded to Win 10 and immediately, I could only see ONE of the 5 drives [Drive 0].

I've been reading and found that MS had invented Storage Spaces, primarily to confuse old guys like me. :-(

OK, I can get to the screen where I Create Storage Space, but it requires that the drives be clean. Hey, I have data on these drives! How the heck am I supposed to get them recognized by WIn 10 w/o destroying the data?

OK, I can put each one in slot 0 and suck off the data to some other HD. The problem is that I don't HAVE enough HD space to do this!

Can anyone suggest a good way to proceed?

 

Windows 10 Home will not boot or restart with USB Storage Spaces pool drives attached

Hi George,



Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

I understand your concern and will assist you to resolve this issue.

• 
  Did you make any changes in BIOS?
  
• 
  Are you getting any error message?
  

I suggest you to update Storage controller drivers and check if it helps.

Steps 1:

• 
  Press Windows key + X.
  
• 
  Select Device manager.
  
• 
  Expand Storage controller.
  
• 
  Right click on the driver and Update the drivers.
  

Steps 2: Windows 10 has a built-in troubleshooter to check and fix issues with hardware and devices. I would suggest you to run this troubleshooter to check if the issue
is with device. Refer these steps:

• 
  Press Windows key +X, select Control panel.
  
• 
  Change the view by option on the top right to Large icons.
  
• 
  Click on troubleshooting and click on the view all option on the left panel.
  
• 
  Run the Hardware and devices troubleshooter.
  

Hope this helps. If the issue remains unresolved, please get back to us and we would be happy to help