Windows 10: Storage Spaces Disappears After Replacing Boot Drive

My Win 10 Pro system has eight physical disks: one boot drive, one CD-ROM, and six HDDs in a Storage Spaces array. Everything works fine.

The boot drive was getting full, so I replaced it with another drive with twice the capacity. Both drives are SSDs, and I "cloned" the old disk to the new using Macrium Reflect 7 software. The new drive boots Windows just fine, but it never recognizes the Storage Spaces drive array. It shows it as one empty drive with 0 bytes used, the correct drive letter (E:\), the correct capacity (approx. 10TB), but no name assigned to it.

Windows Device Manager says E: is RAW, not ReFS or even NTFS.

Windows Task Manger's Performance tab shows that disk E: is 90% busy all the time. It's all read transactions, no writes. I've let this run for almost 24 hours and it's still 90% busy, and Windows still doesn't recognize the Storage Spaces array or its contents.

When I shut down and re-install the original boot drive, everything goes back to normal. Drive E: is once again recognized as a 10TB Storage Spaces array and all of its contents are valid. Swapping back again to the replacement boot drive repeats the above behavior.

Any suggestions?

Windows 10 Pro
Version 2004 (OS Build 19041.685)

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