Storage Spaces Messed Up, How to save my data?

[kingfurykiller]

So, I have a problem with window's storage spaces and am NOT an expert, so I'm needing some help. Current drive config (yes I know it's messy, I built it over time and really didn't wanna re-install my OS. Gonna get fixed over the winter holiday vacation)

 

 

 

I had an issue with bad sata cables that was fixed when I re-cable managed my PC. Unfortunately, my RAID1 config that I had on my 2 1TB spinning rusts got lost. NBD, i have a 4TB backup, and can re-format that.

 

However, apparently after this event, my 500 GB SSD that I used for modded games was going in and out of visibility in windows. So I re-seated the cables, and then went to check drive health in Samsung magician when I noticed that the drive wasn't showing up properly

 

 

So that second entry where it said it was a storage space got me thinking, so I checked storage spaces and got this:

 

 

How??? So now I can't manage the drive properly, and I don't want it part of this storage space. I believe removing the drive re-formats it.

 

Most of the modded games on this drive took hours to set up; I don't really want to re-do all that and re-map everything. When I go to create a new pool, the 2 1TB drives don't show up, only a different drive that is NOT formatted (the gaming drive).

 

So how do I get out of this state? I can currently launch the games on the modding drive without issue but i'd rather get things right for my re-config, and I was planning on simply leaving this drive be for now. Thanks in advance.

[lcboboy]

3 hours ago, kingfurykiller said:

So, I have a problem with window's storage spaces and am NOT an expert, so I'm needing some help. Current drive config (yes I know it's messy, I built it over time and really didn't wanna re-install my OS. Gonna get fixed over the winter holiday vacation)

 

 

 

I had an issue with bad sata cables that was fixed when I re-cable managed my PC. Unfortunately, my RAID1 config that I had on my 2 1TB spinning rusts got lost. NBD, i have a 4TB backup, and can re-format that.

 

However, apparently after this event, my 500 GB SSD that I used for modded games was going in and out of visibility in windows. So I re-seated the cables, and then went to check drive health in Samsung magician when I noticed that the drive wasn't showing up properly

 

 

So that second entry where it said it was a storage space got me thinking, so I checked storage spaces and got this:

 

 

How??? So now I can't manage the drive properly, and I don't want it part of this storage space. I believe removing the drive re-formats it.

 

Most of the modded games on this drive took hours to set up; I don't really want to re-do all that and re-map everything. When I go to create a new pool, the 2 1TB drives don't show up, only a different drive that is NOT formatted (the gaming drive).

 

So how do I get out of this state? I can currently launch the games on the modding drive without issue but i'd rather get things right for my re-config, and I was planning on simply leaving this drive be for now. Thanks in advance.

I feel the easiest to fix this is just to format and redownload windows

[kingfurykiller]

17 hours ago, lcboboy said:

I feel the easiest to fix this is just to format and redownload windows

Probably, but that's what I'm trying to avoid.

 

Also, it's NOT my boot drive that's messed up

[NewMaxx]

It's possible to manipulate Storage Spaces via PowerShell, but you will have to look that up yourself.

[kingfurykiller]

On 11/17/2021 at 12:25 AM, NewMaxx said:

It's possible to manipulate Storage Spaces via PowerShell, but you will have to look that up yourself.

Thanks, I ended up giving up on and nuking it all