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ITtimjones
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I tried to add a never used SSD to a Storage Space, and it is not visible. I see it in Disk Management. I created a partition on it. I even saved some data to the partition. But The drive, nor the partition, are able to be added to Storage Spaces
So I just built a new PC. I installed my OS onto an M.2 SSD (Samsung). I have a 4TB HDD that I added to it's own Storage Space - No trouble there. I also have an ADATA SSD that I haven't touched since the build, and I would like to start a Storage Space with. The end goal is to add my other 2 varying sized SSD's to this one for a larger SSD based partition.
When I open Storage Spaces to add a new storage device. I get the message that there are no available storage devices. I looked for it in Disk Manager, and there it was (unformatted - mostly). I noticed that it has some sort of 550mb NTFS System Reserved partition on it that I did not want there. Google shows that apparently Windows 10 install sneaks this partition on other drives (even unformatted ones) as a boot partition? This does really annoy me that the installation did NOT complete as I wanted and specified.
So, I guess I have a 2 part question. 1) Any idea why I can't add this SSD to a Storage Space? 2) Can I do anything about this 550mb System Reserved partition?
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So I just built a new PC. I installed my OS onto an M.2 SSD (Samsung). I have a 4TB HDD that I added to it's own Storage Space - No trouble there. I also have an ADATA SSD that I haven't touched since the build, and I would like to start a Storage Space with. The end goal is to add my other 2 varying sized SSD's to this one for a larger SSD based partition.
When I open Storage Spaces to add a new storage device. I get the message that there are no available storage devices. I looked for it in Disk Manager, and there it was (unformatted - mostly). I noticed that it has some sort of 550mb NTFS System Reserved partition on it that I did not want there. Google shows that apparently Windows 10 install sneaks this partition on other drives (even unformatted ones) as a boot partition? This does really annoy me that the installation did NOT complete as I wanted and specified.
So, I guess I have a 2 part question. 1) Any idea why I can't add this SSD to a Storage Space? 2) Can I do anything about this 550mb System Reserved partition?
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