Windows 10: Delete Storage Pool for Storage Spaces in Windows 10

How to: Delete Storage Pool for Storage Spaces in Windows 10

How to Delete a Storage Pool for Storage Spaces in Windows 10


Information add more drives to the storage pool.

This tutorial will show you how to delete a storage pool for Storage Spaces in Windows 10.

You must be signed in as an administrator to delete a storage pool.



Note *Busted You must delete all storage spaces from a storage pool before you will be able to delete the storage pool.

When you delete a storage pool it will remove all added physical disks in the pool, and leave them as unallocated like below for you to disconnect or format.




CONTENTS:

• Option One: To Delete a Storage Pool in Storage Spaces Settings
• Option Two: To Delete a Storage Pool in PowerShell

OPTION ONE [/i] To Delete a Storage Pool in Storage Spaces Settings
1. Open Settings, click/tap on the System icon, click/tap on Storage on the left side, and click/tap on the Manage Storage Spaces link on the right side. (see screenshot below)


Note You can also open the Control Panel (icons view), and click/tap on the Storage Spaces icon instead.





2. Click/tap on the Change settings button, click/tap on Yes if prompted by UAC, and click/tap on the Delete pool link for the storage pool you want to delete. (see screenshot below)



3. Click/tap on Delete pool to confirm. (see screenshot below)



4. The storage pool will now be deleted. (see screenshot below)







OPTION TWO [/i] To Delete a Storage Pool in PowerShell
1. Open an elevated PowerShell.

2. Type the command below into the elevated PowerShell, and press Enter. (see screenshot below)
*Arrow Get-StoragePool




3. Make note of the friendly name (ex: "Storage Pool 1") of the storage pool you want to delete. (see screenshot above)

4. Type the command below into the elevated PowerShell, and press Enter. (see screenshot below)


Note For more Remove-StoragePool command usage options, see: Remove-StoragePool - Windows IT Center


*Arrow Remove-StoragePool -FriendlyName "Name"



Note Substitute Name in the command above with the actual name (ex: "Storage Pool 1") of the storage pool from step 3 above.

For example:

Remove-StoragePool -FriendlyName "Storage Pool 1"





5. When prompted in PowerShell, type Y and press Enter to confirm. (see screenshot above)

6. When finished, you can close the elevated PowerShell.

That's it,
Shawn


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• How to Create Storage Spaces Shortcut in Windows 10
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• How to Rename Physical Drive in Storage Pool for Storage Spaces in Windows 10
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How to remove a bad drive in Windows 10 storage spaces pool

Could someone list the steps involved in replacing a bad drive from a Windows 10 storage spaces pool? I cannot find any info on the Microsoft support site that is specific to Windows 10. Also, could you list the steps to remove a 'good' drive and replace
it with another drive if the process is different?

 

Windows 10 Storage Spaces

Question;

Have a RAID 0 storage pool in Windows 10. The storage pool has 952 GB of usable space, it currently has 6.06 GB of space used. I ran a system clean-up which wrote data to securely erase empty hard drive space. Now I get a warning that my storage pool is
full. I wrote a large group of files approximately 41 GB to the space to verify there wasn't an actual limitation. After all the files copied without issue I deleted them and noticed that the pool went from no capacity to 911 GB in use, the amount that was
written and then deleted.

I have searched but not come across this issue in any internet searches. Perhaps I am not searching for the correct terminology?

Any suggestions for correcting the storage spaces error without affecting the data on the pool? The reason of concern is that the drive has a SoildWorks vault space and I would prefer not to delete it and have to recreate it.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

 

How do I turn a storage pool back into a normal harddrive?

Hi, the Tutorial section is a great place to start.

These may help:
Delete Storage Pool for Storage Spaces in Windows 10 | Tutorials
Remove Drive from Storage Pool for Storage Spaces in Windows 10 | Tutorials

- and more are linked from those.

Searchable list:
Windows 10 Tutorial Index | Tutorials

 

Storage spaces recovery

For interest:

Move Storage Spaces from Windows 10 Pro to Windows Server 2016 Essentials

But I note:

What Windows build/edition are you using on your old PC, and what on your new?

More:
Can you move Storage Spaces pools between computers?

 

Not happy with Storage Pools.

Thanks for your reply. I already read the Storages & spaces FAQ
before I posted this query. Maybe I still don't understand how this Storage Pool works. I do understand what you are saying about
C: Drive. But Crive also holds the "Library" files. These are the files I wish to delete on
Crive to free up space because they are now on the Storage Pool drives. The 2 extra Storage Pool drives are internal HD's in my tower. If this is the way the Storage Pool works, then I'd rather not have the Storage Pool and I'll just backup
my Library Files (pictures, videos, music, documents) on my internal HDs. Is there a way to reverse the Storage Pool I just created?

Thanks.