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disk shows up in powershell get-disk, but not in get-physicaldisk.
this happens when removing disk from a storage pool and i can't add the disk to another storage pool unless it's listed with get-physicaldisk. is there a reliable way to re-use this disk in a storage space
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Hello there,
The most possible reason is that the drive is not “clean”. To be available for storage spaces, the disk shouldn’t have any volume or partition on it and better be a raw drive.
Please provide more information:
If you run Reset-PhysicalDisk on a physical disk that appears as lost communication or split, it attempts to re-integrate the disk into the storage pool if the target disk is discoverable. After resetting the disk, use Repair-VirtualDisk to recover its resiliency.
If you run Reset-PhysicalDisk on a disk that isn’t a part of a storage pool, it will clear any lingering storage space data and metadata on the disk.
Hope this resolves your Query !!
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the disk does not list when, get-physicaldisk, therefore, i can't reset-physicaldisk. the disk will be listed everywhere else, i.e. get-disk & disk manager & diskpart, but not get-physicaldisk. i have cleaned the disk with diskpart & clean all. is there no easy way to get the disk listed with get-physicaldisk. i see a lot of these in event viewer:
The file system was unable to write metadata to the media backing volume K:. A write failed with status "A device which does not exist was specified." ReFS will take the volume offline. It may be mounted again automatically.
the storage space with 3 hdd was fine until 1 disk developed "communication error". i have been learning how to work Storage Spaces for awhile and have figured out a lot but this is the one thing that has stymied me frequently. i have multiple (used) hdd that look good in windows but not Storage Space and have the same problem. if i buy a brand new hdd they always work. i have intermittently been successful adding a used drive but have not found a consistent way to do this. is this expected?
i appreciate you trying to help me.
problem is solved.
first, Removed-VirtualDisk, then
Removed-StoragePool, then
3 disks in the pool listed in Get-PhysicalDisk AND CanPool=True, one other disk was marked in Disk Management as still in the non-existent pool and also didn't show in Get-PhysicalDisk. then i used DiskPart to Clean it and then it showed in Get-PhysicalDisk & CanPool=True. then i rebuilt the pool and restored the backed up data.
i'm thinking while the pool was alive any disks previously attached were protected. the protection was giving me a pain.