Erase/Format Storage Space

56, you need to give us much more information: what is this storage space ON, exactly, and what are you preparing it for?

In responding to WiseWiz, please explain exactly what you are referring to as a "storage space" to avoid misunuderstandings. Most people would say disk, partition, USB stick, external drive, …

Denis

I do not know about storage spaces. These are the most relevant TenForumsTutorials

Storage Spaces - Delete a Storage Pool in Windows 10

Storage Spaces - Delete a Storage Space from Storage Pool in Windows 10

Storage Spaces - Remove Drive from Storage Pool in Windows 10

I do not know if these procedures will meet your requirement for them to be irrecoverable. I think your best bet would be to post that specific question in one of the tutorial threads.

Best of luck,
Denis

56Kruiser said:

Thanks for the links and suggestions.

I'll take a look. I hadn't even known about the tutorial threads.

Several choices at the top of the page:

56Kruiser said:

I'll take a look. I hadn't even known about the tutorial threads.

It's really worth making time to browse through the Tutorial index - there's a shortcut to it at the top of every page.

- At the foot of the Tutorial index is a shortcut to download it as a spreadsheet.
- I download a new copy each month so I can benefit from Excel's filtering capabilities when I search for topics of interest.

- Tutorials are also listed by category at Tutorials - there's also a shortcut to that at the top of every page.
- Both tutorial pages are searchable.
- You can also search for TenForumsTutorials in many general search engines, such as Google, by adding site:tenforums.com/tutorials after your search term. For example,
taskbar toolbars site:tenforums.com/tutorials

- And note that you can also search TenForums threads [rather than just searching tutorials] in many general search engines, such as Google, by adding site:tenforums.com after your search term. For example,
Search for drivers by HardwareID site:tenforums.com
[This is what the search box in the top-right corner of TenForums webpages does automatically]

Denis

I do not think you can do a batch Format of all drives in Storage Spaces. I think you need to Delete each drive from Storage Spaces, then press the Windows key +X and choose Disk Management and the select each drive separately Right click it and Format it. then go back to Storage Spaces and add the drives as you did previously.