Windows 10 isn't letting me use my drive.

[nbehan]

So, a while ago I had to reinstall windows on a new ssd because my 850 evo was corrupt. On my old windows (same key, just on the 850 evo) I had only set up one of my hard drives (as drive D:, cuz im lazy). when i reinstalled windows, and setup a drive, it automatically called itself E: and it only lets me see and use one drive in Disk Management. pic: https://gyazo.com/9f4494d8d7702d124271f9fbbfcf40e0

My other drive is unusable. I thought it was corrupt, but it both drives show up in both my BIOS and in device maneger. pic: https://gyazo.com/7be09c3c146afff5a4ce31fd552a73be

other pic: https://gyazo.com/df5a47a54c66d6087441eb7a3a8c36f0

i would like to fix this before i install my new 850 evo. What do I do?

 

[PhysX_HW]

So, you have an SSD for the system, and two 1TB WD HDDs of the same type, right? And disk management can only see one of them.

 

[nbehan]

So, you have an SSD for the system, and two 1TB WD HDDs of the same type, right? And disk management can only see one of them.

yes. but device manager can see both (and acknowledges they are different ports)

 

[PhysX_HW]

It's because you have it set up as a storage space. Member disks of a storage space don't show up in disk management, that's why you can only see the storage space itself.

Go to "Control Panel\System and Security\Storage Spaces" and there you should be able to see what's going on. I think you may have them configured as a mirrored array, or something, and therefore you can't see the individual disks that are members of the storage space.

 

[nbehan]

It's because you have it set up as a storage space. Member disks of a storage space don't show up in disk management, that's why you can only see the storage space itself.

Go to "Control Panel\System and Security\Storage Spaces" and there you should be able to see what's going on. I think you may have them configured as a mirrored array, or something, and therefore you can't see the individual disks that are members of the storage space.

Okay, so i did that and i can see both drives. (they are both seen and both are being "used" however my storage space (E: has no resiliancy and only one set of the capacity

PIC: https://gyazo.com/0abc463629f71f8b11fefddafbc6b087

Can you still help?

 

[PhysX_HW]

It's because you have it set up as a storage space. Member disks of a storage space don't show up in disk management, that's why you can only see the storage space itself.

Go to "Control Panel\System and Security\Storage Spaces" and there you should be able to see what's going on. I think you may have them configured as a mirrored array, or something, and therefore you can't see the individual disks that are members of the storage space.

Okay, so i did that and i can see both drives. (they are both seen and both are being "used" however my storage space (E: has no resiliancy and only one set of the capacity

PIC: https://gyazo.com/0abc463629f71f8b11fefddafbc6b087

Can you still help?

Sorry for the late answer.

You can do two things. Either delete the storage space and remove the drives from the storage pool, or extend the 930GB capacity of drive E: to ~2TB, so it will utilize all the space on the two drives.

I don't know what you store on these drives, but if there is anything important or irreplaceable there, I would use them separately, because if either one of the drives fail in the storage pool, you'd certainly lose some files from the storage space. Though you can make a small (100-200GB) mirrored storage space that would act like a RAID1 array and be redundant to drive failures, but it would use twice as much physical space on the drives.

Also you could make a striped array, which is like a RAID0 array, but if any of the drives fail, you lose everything that's stored on it.

If you decide to use them as regular drives, you can go ahead. delete the storage space, and then remove the drives from the storage pool, then delete the pool.

I tried to explain everything, but there quite a few tutorials for storage spaces, so you can just google it if you are interested.