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Tuesday, January 28, 2020 11:33 AM

I tried to remove a failed drive in a Storage Space I had made after adding a new drive. Windows Explorer then crashed and rebooted. It was showing progress in Preparing for removal. Since then, there is no progress reflected. Furthermore, PowerShell command get-storagejob does nothing (no output). What to do?

get-physicaldisk shows that the Operation Status of the drive is "Lost Communication". How do I fix this?

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Wednesday, January 29, 2020 4:12 AM

Hi

In general, when there's the failed disk in the storage pool, we could add the new replaced disk first then follow the steps below to repair:

  • Open PowerShell in admin mode (PowerShell ISE is better)
  • To get the names of the disks, type the following command: Get-PhysicalDisk
  • To get the names of the virtual disks, type the following command: Get-Virtual-Disk
  • First mark the disk you want to remove as "retired" by the following command: Set-PhysicalDisk -FriendlyName 'PhysicalDiskXX' -Usage Retired
  • Now your disk is mark to be removed. You need to rebuild each of your virtual disks with the following command: Repair-VirtualDisk -FriendlyName 'My Virtual Disk'
  • You can monitor the progression of the process by typing the following command: Get-StorageJob
  • Once everything is done, just remove the disk from the pool with this command: Remove-PhysicalDisk -FriendlyName 'PhysicalDiskXX'

Please also follow the article to do a check.

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/ie/en-US/b7c3fc4f-4712-4442-baa6-4fd004e28c13/storage-spaces-repairvirtualdisk-storagejob-stuck-on-0?forum=winserver8gen

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/b7c3fc4f-4712-4442-baa6-4fd004e28c13/storage-spaces-repairvirtualdisk-storagejob-stuck-on-0?forum=winserver8gen

If you need to force to remove the storage pool, commands : Get-StoragePool -friendlyname "xxx" | remove-storagepool, also use a -force switch to force it to execute?

If still not work, i think we should recreate this storage space.

Best Regards,

Daniel

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Thursday, January 30, 2020 2:22 AM

The repair is suspended, it just does not happen.

Monday, February 3, 2020 5:15 AM

If so, maybe we should consider rebuilding the storage pool.

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