Windows 10: Urgent Advice on Windows 10 Storage Spaces! - Repairing Volume

Hi all,

Long story short. I had a x3 4TB WD RED Drive set up in Parity mode within Windows Storage Spaces. Totally healthy. I added a 4th drive last night, and began to optimise it. It reached about 0.58% Used and then WINDOWS decided to reboot my computer after an update with no warning...

I logged back in as fast as I could to find my storage pool of D:\ drive totally non-existent in windows explorer. I also couldn't open Storage Spaces, nothing would happen when I tried. I saw an active process in task manager but trying to kill it even with CMD, apparently the PID didn't exist.. So in a last ditch attempt I powered down again. Disconnected and reconnected all my drives, started and alas eventually out of nowhere, my D:\ showed up... Once I got Storage spaces open, it was very laggy, and registered that the 4th added drive was in warning and suggested I replace it (I will attach some screenshots from my entire process).

I eventually scoured the internet and decided to act using Powershell. I identified the bad disk, named it, retired it, and began repair-virtualdisk. It's been running a FULL DAY on 6.5TB of data and it's reached about 43%. Now, it is moving along which is reassuring. I can see the usage for the bad disk within the storage pool application has dropped from 0.58% to around 0.17% now.. So I'm guessing that's a good sign assuming the rest of my 3 drives are being 'rebuilt?..'

What I need from you guys is:
- Have I done the right thing?
- Once the repair is complete, can I then remove the bad disk from the pool and disconnect it?
- Will my data be okay on my other 3 drives?
- Is there anything else I should do?

Before beginning virtual disk repair:







Current status as of now 24 hours into it:










To note, I can 'technically' access the data, but reads are incredibly incredibly slow, I can barely play the video files but the metadata suggests it's all intact... I'm taking a wild guess that it's because the storage pool is currently unhealthy... Basically I can't even do a manual backup because when I try to copy anything it drops to around 0kb/s and nothing moves from the pool to the backup - That does worry me..

Thank you very much in advance!

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How to recover a volume accidentally delete from Storage Spaces


Need urgent help here:
1. I have a Mass Storage Space created and it included 3 disks
2. In Disk Manager, I accidentally deleted the volume on the storage space
3. The files are all there on the three disk as in the Storage Space management page the disks are all showing as being at capacity (see attached screen shot below)
4. In disk manager, the D drive previously associated with the Storage Space is now showing as unallocated

Question: Is it possible to restore the volume on the storage space?

Thanks!

 

How to restore a volume accidentally deleted from Storage Spaces

Need urgent help here:

1. I have a Mass Storage Space created in Windows 10 and it includs 3 disks

2. In Disk Manager, I accidentally deleted the volume on the storage space

3. The files are all there intact on the three disk as in the Storage Space management page the disks are all showing as being at capacity (see attached screen shot below)

4. In disk manager, the D drive previously associated with the Storage Space is now showing as unallocated

Question: Is it possible to restore the volume on the storage space? If I create a volume on the D drive without formatting it, would that allow me to access all the files still in the Storage Space?

Thanks!

 

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?