This is for adding a new drive to the pool or starting a new pool from scratch...

Reset the new drive (not all the drives!) BEFORE adding to the pool. You want to get rid of any possible...

Oh my!!! You are in peril of having the you-know-what sued out of you. Please get a pro in this field to take some responsibility. If something goes wrong you can point at them at a minimum. This...

Doesn't apply to all problems here, but whenever you add any new drives to a pool, make sure you execute Reset-PhysicalDisk for the newly introduced drives just to make sure there isn't any old...

When there are, perhaps restoring from a backup would be helpful

CCleaner definitely does things. Before I got rid of it a couple of years back, it deleted a registry key that was necessary for maxView Storage Manager software to manage my Microsemi (Adaptec)...

I always feel like I should toss this in but never do because it's obvious. I have no connection with Macrium, but please, if you use the free version for a bit, purchase the Pro version. If...

I see a 16GB flash drive for $7 on Amazon.

Sounds like a good idea, however, my line-of-business applications will not run on Linux--not even in a Windows VM. I guess I should install Linux and not do my work? Oh yea, for stuff that will...

Did you try making the change in group policy? Hopefully you haven't done any damage in the registry.

Agree. I too prefer to use the eject button.

1. What if you (or your spouse) has changed the policy for one of your umpteen external drives to "Better Performance" from the new default of "Quick...

I went into the Task Scheduler and manually ran the Data Integrity Scan (Task Scheduler Library -> Microsoft -> Windows -> Data Integrity Scan)

Now the lights on both drives in the NTFS mirrored...

The array is in the storage pool layer of a Windows 10 Pro for Workstations storage spaces stack. When the storage space was created, "mirror" was selected.

What's needed is a way to check the...

It would be great to do a periodic scrub of an NTFS mirrored storage space. If the mirror showed an inconsistency, a checksum compare against a backup could be done to hopefully determine what the...

dalchina, It's quite a bit more than "notify" if you are speaking about the Group Policy option and trying to stop ordinary updates. Barring end of life issues and also Defender signature updates,...

Step 1: Anyone with W10 Home switch to Pro.

Step 2: Follow the guide at the link above in Brink's response and go down the Group Policy Editor choice. Make sure you enable TWO items:

Go to...

I did some searching for the offline/online functionality in Windows 10 Pro and couldn't find anything definitive. Perhaps someone with internal knowledge can reply here. My guess is that the...

Perhaps someone will have a better solution. One that you won't like at all would probably mean replacing your drives. If your drives are SED (Self Encrypting Drives) the data is already encrypted...

Sorry I didn't notice you have Windows Home. Offline/online will work for all who have Windows Pro--which you and every Home user should switch to IMO.

This failure-to-eject problem has been...

Bring up Disk Management. Wait a few moments for it to populate.

You will see squares at the left of the screen that have labels such as "Disk 0," "Disk 1," etc. Each square indicates whether...

Do you know of some risk associated with using the Windows 10 offline/online functionality within Disk Management? Following the really easy steps in my previous post allows safe removal in every...

What do you do when the Safely Remove process gives the message that it isn't safe?

First, use Disk Management to toggle the drive offline then back online.

Second, eject the drive using the Safely Remove icon in the notification area.

Works every time.

If you forget to...

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That was worth a try to see what's going on, thanks. It shows the info about the current drives just as other utilities do. No references to drive letter "Y" which will not display in File...

Thanks Denis but I never tried assigning a network and local at the same time. This is really weird.

I start with Y not assigned to anything.
I successfully assign a local USB drive to Y: as...