Windows 10 Windows 10 - Storage Spaces - Pool disappeared after replacing drives

[Jesper Heinemeier]

Hi,

I've run into a predicament as I have lost access to a significant amount of my data.


I had a storage pool consistent of 4 HHD's + 1 NVME device (2*6TB + 2*3TB + 256GB)

Over the last two days I attempted to upgrade to of my HDD's as follows:

1. "Prepare for removal" of HDD X.
2. "Prepare for removal" of HDD Y.
3. Waited over night
4. "Remove" HDD X.
5. "Remove" HDD Y.
6. Physically removed both drives.
7. Added two "new" 6TB drives.
8. Deleted the partitions on the new drivces.
9. Added the drives to the pool.

The outcome was that the Manage Storage Spaces Pool disappeared and the settings menu showing "create a new pool and storage space".

"Get-StoragePool | fl *" returns:

Usage : Other
OperationalStatus : OK
HealthStatus : Healthy
ProvisioningTypeDefault : Fixed
SupportedProvisioningTypes : {Thin, Fixed}
MediaTypeDefault : Unspecified
ReadOnlyReason : None
RepairPolicy : Parallel
RetireMissingPhysicalDisks : Auto
WriteCacheSizeDefault : Auto
Version : Windows Server vNext
FaultDomainAwarenessDefault : PhysicalDisk
ObjectId : {1}\\JX2-SERVER9\root/Microsoft/Windows/Storage/Providers_v2\SPACES_StoragePool.ObjectId="{d3bd903b-d416-11e7-988a-806e6f6e6963}:SP:{d3bd903a-d416-11e7-988a-806e6f6e6963}"
PassThroughClass :
PassThroughIds :
PassThroughNamespace :
PassThroughServer :
UniqueId : {d3bd903a-d416-11e7-988a-806e6f6e6963}
AllocatedSize : 24260674322432
ClearOnDeallocate : False
EnclosureAwareDefault : False
FriendlyName : Primordial
IsClustered : False
IsPowerProtected : False
IsPrimordial : True
IsReadOnly : False
LogicalSectorSize :
Name :
OtherOperationalStatusDescription :
OtherUsageDescription :
PhysicalSectorSize :
ResiliencySettingNameDefault : Mirror
Size : 24500818427904
SupportsDeduplication : False
ThinProvisioningAlertThresholds : {70}
WriteCacheSizeMax : 18446744073709551614
WriteCacheSizeMin : 0
PSComputerName :
CimClass : ROOT/Microsoft/Windows/Storage:MSFT_StoragePool
CimInstanceProperties : {ObjectId, PassThroughClass, PassThroughIds, PassThroughNamespace...}
CimSystemProperties : Microsoft.Management.Infrastructure.CimSystemProperties


"Get-PhysicalDisk" returns:

Number FriendlyName SerialNumber MediaType CanPool OperationalStatus HealthStatus Usage Size
------ ------------ ------------ --------- ------- ----------------- ------------ ----- ----
0 ST6000VX0011-1T317Z Z4D2P73V HDD False {Starting, OK} Unknown Unknown 5.46 TB
1 ST6000NM0115-1YZ110 ZAD3LHM0 HDD False {Starting, OK} Unknown Unknown 5.46 TB
4 PM951 NVMe SAMSUNG 256GB 0025_384C_F1B1_A7B8. SSD False {Starting, OK} Unknown Unknown 238.47 GB
2 ST6000NM0115-1YZ110 ZAD3HESA HDD False {Starting, OK} Unknown Unknown 5.46 TB
5 KINGSTON SKC1000240G 50026B727704A291 _00000001. SSD False OK Healthy Auto-Select 223.57 GB
3 ST6000VX0011-1T317Z Z4D2P6SB HDD False {Starting, OK} Unknown Unknown 5.46 TB


Disk Management does not display any of the drives (as expected).

So far I have tried:

- Reboot
- Shutdown > remove the physical drives > Boot
- Update BIOS
- Recover to previous restore point

No luck :-(

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