Windows 10 Storage Spaces Help!

[OahuGrown1986]

Hi, I have Windows 10 and recently did a clean install. I wiped everything, and I have two SSD's. Now the C drive is fine, normal, but the second SSD keeps showing up in storage spaces. I can't seem to figure out how to remove it from there and keep it as it's own drive. The problem with this is it seems to run slow, and also in all my monitoring software the SSD in storage spaces doesn't show up (to see temp, etc.). In device manager the SSD is there, so I did the whole format and what not, but it still shows up as in storage spaces. When I go to optimize drives, it shows the media type as 'storage space', instead of 'solid state drive' like it should. This is driving me crazy so if anyone can help me figure out how to get it out of there, well, I'd OWE YOU lol. Appreciate the help in advance!

Edit: Sorry, forgot to ask, do I simply uninstall the storage space device in device manager? Can I do that? Will that fix my problem? Is it even ok to do that?

 

[nvincent_08]

how about using disk management?

 

[OahuGrown1986]

Yes, I tried using disk management, go through the wizard and everything, but it still shows up as a removable device after it's done formatting. Also, I tried disabling the storage spaces device in device manager and then my disk shows in device manager, but not in disk management. I just want a SSD to show as a disk lol. I don't get it, the disk used to be on it's own before and show up in monitoring software as an SSD and it's own disk, but now w/ this storage spaces crap it messed me up and I can't for the life of me figure out how to fix it. It's causing a lot of slow downs and what not, so anyone who knows how to fix this, that would be awesome! thanks.

 

[OahuGrown1986]

So just an update, I figured it out. I did (another) clean install, but didn't format my disk. I disable storage spaces, restarted, then used disk management to format and got rid of that storage spaces thing lol. nvincent, thanks, you gave me motivation to give it another go and persistence is key I guess 😛. Not sure how to mark this as solved, but thanks!