Drives not working with storage spaces on Windows 10

Question

_{Friday, April 8, 2016 3:34 AM}

Hi, 

I've been trying to use the storage spaces feature on windows 10 but whenever I try to create a pool I get the following message.

"No drives that work with Storage Space are available. Make sure that the drives you want to use are connected."

(I have two drives in my computer.)

All help is appreciated.

All replies (2)

_{Friday, April 8, 2016 6:53 AM ✅Answered}

Hi Afolabi Missa,

Thanks for your post.

If there are no suitable drives available, the "No drives that work with Storage Spaces are available. Make sure that the drives you want to use are connected." message is displayed instead. Make sure you have connected hard disk drives or SSD-s, not USB flash disks or memory cards.

Please also run  Get-PhysicalDisk cmdlet to check if it shows all drives.

You could follow the articles below to manage storage space in window 10

http://www.windowscentral.com/how-use-storage-spaces-windows-10

Please Note: Since the web site is not hosted by Microsoft, the link may change without notice. Microsoft does not guarantee the accuracy of this information.

Besides, since we mainly focus on the configuration on windows server, for more professional support about windows 10, you could also discuss in our windows 10 forum

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home?category=Windows10ITPro

Thanks for your support and understanding.

Best Regards,

Mary Dong

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_{Thursday, April 30, 2020 6:28 PM}

Dear Mary, all,

I know  this thread is very, very old. However, I don't get why Storage spaces does not work with USB drives or SD cards. This is not what Microsoft says in its article on windows-10-storage-spaces (can't post links, sorry).

Best,

José