Windows 10: Want to delete storage pool accidentally reformatted one of the drives

I totally goofed and reformatted one of the drives in a simple pool. My computer is dual-boot and I was in Ubuntu at the time. There was nothing important in the pool, so I don't mind loosing just that drive, or the even the whole pool.I tried removing the affected disk, but it won't let me. I then tried deleting the entire pool, but again, it wouldn't let me.Would really appreciate some suggestions how to deal with this.

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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?

 

replacing a drive in storage pool

Hi Arni,

As you referring to replacement of failed drive under storage pool, we will help you with this issue.

Provide us additional information to assist you better with this issue:

• How exactly have you created a storage pool on your device?
• Which is the operating system installed on your device? Confirm to us if Windows 10.
• Is your device connected to Windows Server/ domain network?

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How do you recover old files /data prior to a Storage Pool (Delete pool is the only option thus far)

I am looking for any suggestions as I have spent nearly 20+ hours working with MS and reading through blogs and creating/deleting storage pools to simulate scenarios.

Basically I had storage pool that had a "Retired" drive and when working with Microsoft they asked me to use a USB drive and attach to existing storage pool to remove the other.

Adding the USB Drive (2 TB w/ 1.5 existing backup data) sorta worked but ended up having to remove the storage pool and recreate.

However the old pool still shows my old drives + the one "OK" good USB Drive that is part of the pool. But the Storage pool is "Red" and has an error of Inaccessible; check the physical drives section and only allows me to delete the pool.

I do NOT want to delete in fear (and tested) that it will remove my USB backup drive from the storage but also make my data inaccessible (data on the drive prior to being part of the pool. 2-way mirror

I purchased data recovery software and scanned the drives and see some of the data but the name/file structure seems a little off and my preference would be to be able to access my original files on the USB (Videos and pictures mainly) and delete the useless
storage pool.

Does anyone know how to access data prior to being part of a storage pool or find a safe way to remove/delete a pool from a s