Windows 10: Storage Space - Unable to complete removal of a failed drive

I have a storage pool that has been working since they were introduced. I have had several failed HDDs over the years and always been able to remove the drive and replace.This time, however, I have a drive that I can't force remove.I have tried several of the Powershell remove commands As admin I don't mind losing this ~1% of data but I just want to force the drive out.Note the optimizing at 99%. It reach that mark in about 24 hour and then stopped. I tried forcing it to stop but that again spent 24 hours doing nothing. I ran a powershell command to restart and this is the current state.It d

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Storage Spaces - Unable to Remove Failed Drive / Repair Pool










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Storage Spaces Drive Removal Error

Hello,

I have been having issues with my storage space for the last 2 weeks. After getting some new drives and moving tons of data around I thought it had fixed the problem.

Unfortunately it was not completely fixed and now I have a 2tb drive that is retired but cannot be removed. It says that not all data could be reallocated, but the storage space is a 2-way mirror, so it shouldn't matter.

I tried removing it with powershell, but that failed too.

I really need help, thanks for any suggestions.

 

Storage Spaces - Unable to Remove Failed Drive / Repair Pool


I had 3x 3TB drives in a parity pool. It started to fill up so i added a fourth 3TB drive and months later one of the original 3 began to fail on me. Performance was slow, then slower, then it showed disconnected.

I retired the drive and added a replacement, literally the same model 3TB drive. I cannot however, get it to remove the failed physical disk and repair the pool. I even tried adding another 2TB drive i had available in case it needed the extra space (didn't make sense but i was reaching).

I get the "drive could not be removed because not all data could be reallocated. add an additional drive to this pool and reattempt this operation."

Any ideas on what i need to do? I have searched a lot and don't really seem to be getting anywhere. The only way i was able to retire the drive was through powershell. I'm assuming it's a GUI issue and perhaps i'm not approaching it correctly via powershell. Attempting to repair virtual disk didn't work.

Any help is appreciated! I really don't want to lose this data. I wasn't able to backup much before the drive failed completely.