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Storage Spaces pool not appearing after fresh install of Windows 10 (downgrade from Windows 11) (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi all

Long time reader, first time poster. Hoping for some help from the community

TL;dr: My Windows 11 install on my boot SSD corrupted, re-installed Windows 10, now storage spaces parity pool does not appear. Can I restore or do I need to reformat?

More details:

4x4TB Samsung 980 Evo SSDs, originally configured in parity in Windows 11 Storage Spaces

Windows 11 install was irretrievably corrupted. I had to format and do a fresh install of Windows. As I'd had nothing but problems with Windows 11 I decided to go back to Windows 10

In Windows 10: get-physicaldisk shows the drives are all stuck at {starting, OK}.

The storage pool members appear separately in Disk Management

Windows Explorer does not show storage pool

ReclaiMe can still see the data on each disk

I also still have my original 4x4TB WD Red Pro RAID5 array with data intact that was the source of the data for the 4x4TB Evo 870 storage space

After reading up online, the only thing it seems that I can do is:

reset-physicaldisk to wipe each 4TB 870 Evo drive and then:

A) either make another storage pool or go back to motherboard RAID5

possibly install Windows 11 on another SSD to "see" the pool (assuming it's an OS Build incompatibility), copy the data, then A)

Is there an option 3) where I can just restore the storage pool in Windows 10?

Thanks in advance for any replies

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Storage Pool drives made on 11 aren't backward compatible with 10. Option 2 would be the best imo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

thanks for confirming. I'm in the process of doing just that

Then I'm going back to motherboard raid 5 which was much more reliable and not os or build dependent

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You might went to do some research on Hardware vs Software based RAID.

There are some 3rd party tools that do Software RAID

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

motherboard raid is software raid

the difference between that and windows storage spaces is I've successfully migrated my RAID array across 2 motherboards (Z390 to Z690) and across dozens of installs of windows

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The best option is not to use Storage Spaces obviously. Drivepool stablebit will work a much way better and more reliable.

Backups are must have, especially with the Storage Spaces, it is just to horrible.