you’re free to use Storage Spaces to group two or more drives in a storage pool.

When the storage space is not enough, just add more drives to the storage pool.

However, some people encounter failed Storage Spaces and their files are inaccessible.

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How to recover data from failed Storage Spaces comes to the prior thing.

Whats Windows Storage Spaces & storage pool?

How to create them in configs & Control Panel?

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Failed Storage Spaces: Typical Error Messages

Storage Spaces is a widely used tool to save files.

But you may get various error messages when working with it.

error message: Inaccessible; reconnect drives

To fix the failed Storage Spaces error, you should know exactly what the error is.

Therefore, I list the common Storage Spaces errors in the following content.

Error 1: Inaccessible; reconnect drives.

error message: No capacity; add * drives

This is a common error that many people have seen in Storage Spaces.

This error is triggered by either adding a new drive or reconnecting any of the drives in the pool.

c’mon note: there are 3 typical cases in which the drive becomes inaccessible.

error message: Inaccessible; check the Physical drives section

It shows up when there is no more disk space available.

TheNo capacity; add * driveserror can be fixed easily by adding the required number of drives.

Error 3: Inaccessible; check the Physical drives section.

scan the hard drive

Some people reported that they came across this error after installing new Windows Updates.

Error 4: Reduced resiliency; check the Physical drives section.

If more than one drive fails, youll receive aDegraded; check drive healtherror message.

filter out files

How to rescue files on Storage Space?

Then, follow the next guide to recover files from Storage Spaces.

After successfully installing, it’s possible for you to double-press the software to launch it.

search files

it’s crucial that you choose one drive that is failed and contains needed files, then hit theScanbutton.

Thirdly, the software will start the scan process, which will take a few minutes.

you might expand different folders to find files.

preview files

But this will be a time-consuming process if there are thousands of files.

If you want to locate a specific file, theSearchfunction helps a lot.

Previewing chosen files ensures your data recovery accuracy.

save files

Fourthly,tick the files you need and hit theSavebutton to select one storage path.

Do not save files to the original path to preventdata overwriting.

When the data recovery process is over, you’re free to check files in the chosen destination.

[Solved] Can’t Add Drives to Storage Pool Error 0x00000032

Then, you’re able to read the following content to sort out the Storage Spaces errors.

Check the drive connections, and then give it another spin.

The request is not supported.

add the drive to storage pool

(0x00000032) Four possible solutions are here!

In this part, Ill show you the common steps to repair failed Storage Spaces.

A reliable free data backup software is a good choice, such asMiniTool ShadowMaker.

This software supportsbacking up files, folders, partitions, and disks.

you might use the MiniTool ShadowMaker trial edition to back up files for 30 days for free.

you’ve got the option to runCHKDSK /f/r to check the disk errors.

The drive will show as preparing for removal until all the data stored on it is erased.

Now, hope you enjoy the Windows 10 Storage Spaces improvements.

you could learn more information abouthow to create/resize/delete Storage Spacefrom this article.

When encountering a failed disk in Storage Space, the first thing you should consider is data recovery.

you’re able to safely recover data from failed Storage Spaces with MiniTool Power Data Recovery.

After this, make a run at repair the Storage Space with the guidance in this post.

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