Mirrored Storage Space volume disappeared, but Disk Management still sees them as a "storage pool"

Question

About a month ago or so I realized my 4tb mirrored storage space wasn't showing as a volume on my computer. Both drives show up in Disk Management as "Storage pool","Size","Healthy (Storage Spaces Protective Partition)".

Opening "Manage Storage Spaces" app doesn't recognize them as existing, but if I went to go make a new one it doesn't show the 4TB drives as options.

Get-VirtualDisk does not return anything.

I downloaded ReclaiMe Storage Spaces and it sees the 2 drives in good shape to be restore from. Realized that software is $300+ to recover the data so thought I might ask a real question first.

It's just really odd there's no trick to get the computer to re-scan and see that there is a storage space there, considering Disk management knows there is.

This probably is not directly related to the v2004 bugs with Storage Spaces---BUT I was jumping between 2 different boot OS drives for a short period of time while I was troubleshooting my nvme drive not working, so perhaps between the 2 of them (i put Win 10 on an external drive for testing) it got confused how it was configured. The external drive OS also does not recognize the storage spaces the same way. I am on v2004.

Any suggestions for recovering the storage space without just pulling data with a storage tool and never using storage spaces again? I don't have a backup of the entire storage space

Answer 1

Hi,
By default, there is a storage pool named "primordial" which refers to any physical disks added to the server but not yet added to a storage space. And the output doesn’t show your configured storage pool.
For the output of “starting, OK”, there seems to be something wrong with the disk. The solution is to reset the disk and it will erase all your data on the disk.
Since you don’t have a backup of your data, using professional tools to recover your storage space may be a better choice.
Here are some other tools including free ones, I hope them could help at your side:
https://www.minitool.com/data-recovery/recover-data-failed-storage-spaces.html
https://superuser.com/questions/1290859/windows-10-storage-spaces-recover-data-from-2-way-mirror
Or you can choose to go to open a case in the following link so that a dedicated Support Professional can assist you in a more efficient manner. .
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/gp/customer-service-phone-numbers

Thanks for your time!
Best Regards,
Mico Mi

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Answer 2

Hi,
Please tell me the outcome when you run Get-PhysicalDisk Get-storagepool and Get-storagejob.
Is there any error ID about storage space in event viewer?
Please try to run the following command and check if it helps:
Repair-SpacesConfiguration

Best Regards,
Mico Mi