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Attached virtual disk doesn't show up in disk manager (storage pools)
I have a strange virtual disk problem on Server 2019 (the virtual disk commands should be the same as on Win 10). I have several *.vhdx files on different physical drives which used to be in a storage pool in order to combine them into a single large volume (it's used as a temporary volume with non-critical data). After a drive with one of the virtual disk files on it broke, I deleted the pool and wanted to reassign the remaining virtual disk files to a new pool, but these virtual disks don't show up at all:
Attaching the virtual disk file (say, "D:\virtualdisk.vhdx") works without errors, either through disk management (action -> attach VHD) or through powershell (Mount-DiskImage -ImagePath D:\virtualdisk.vhdx). Detaching (Dismount-DiskImage) also works. But once it's attached, it doesn't show up as a disk in disk management (or using the Get-Disk command) as if it's still part of the pool. But as I said, the previous pool has been deleted - the storage pools section in the server manager is empty (that would be storage spaces in Win 10), and the Get-StoragePool powershell command lists only the primordial pool (i.e. storage not assigned to a pool). But interestingly, it shows 88GB under "AllocatedSize", which is the size of that particular virtual disk:
With that disk detached, AllocatedSize becomes 0. So it means the virtual disk is still allocated to some (?) pool but the pool doesn't show up in the list where I can delete it properly...? Is there a way to "force-clean" a virtual disk from any pool assignments?
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