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I'm running Windows 10 Pro and I've been trying to add a drive to my simple storage space. I first tried a 6TB WD drive but kept getting an error. After researching online here it seemed just that drive wasn't compatible. So I found an old 80GB Hitachi drive and tried it but I'm getting the same error.
I can see it in Device Manager, I can see it in the Storage Spaces app. I can see it in the Disk Management tool. I can see it in Powershell get-disk as well. I can use the drive normally, I ran long hardware tests on it with no errors, the drive works as normal.
But as soon as I go to add it to the storage pool I get this error. I've also tried adding it in Safe Mode. I tried to add it inside Powershell but it would not come up in the list of available drives to pool. Here is the error:
Can't prepare drives
Close all applications that are accessing the drive, and then try again.
The system cannot find the file specified. (0x00000002)
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You will have to remove the drive letter to keep windows from accessing it. That option is located in Disk Management - after selecting drive by clicking on it Select Action > All Tasks > Change Drive Letter and Paths > Remove. Drive will no longer be know by windows but will show up in Storage Spaces.
New drives don't cause that error you received as they don't have a drive letter, until assigned by Disk Management or Storage Spaces.
Larry
Right click start button and go to device manager.
Find your disk drivers... right click then and select disable.
Wait for it to disable.
Then right click and select enable.
See if that refreshes it.
Thanks for taking the time to reply, but I find your reply quite useless. I'm understanding your opinion, you don't like Storage Spaces. But the post wasn't "Tell me what you think about Storage Spaces". In my use situation, I need a single storage location for family media server, I have programs to load media to it and servers that pull media from it. Its currently 12TB and I'm trying to increase the size. Its of no use to me to have 12) 1TB drives. So thank you but this reply is not helpful.
The disk needs to be clean.
Meaning no volumes or partitions on it.
Should just be initialized.
Right click start button and go to device manager.
Find your disk drivers... right click then and select disable.
Wait for it to disable.
Then right click and select enable.
See if that refreshes it.
I tried this and no luck, but thank you. I believe something is corrupt in the OS. So I'm going to attempt a restore and then see what happens. I think I've tried all other ideas.
