Unable to delete primordial storage pool from Win 10 storage spaces
I have Windows 10 Pro with one storage pool (2 way mirror out of 4 disks)
when I run get-storagepool
command I see there is another strange storage pool Primordial
which I did not create.
FriendlyName OperationalStatus HealthStatus IsPrimordial IsReadOnly Size AllocatedSize
------------ ----------------- ------------ ------------ ---------- ---- -------------
Primordial OK Healthy True False 4.76 TB 3.6 TB
Storage pool1 OK Healthy False False 3.6 TB 1.86 TB
When I try to delete this pool, I get the error and 0 google results on it.
Remove-StoragePool -FriendlyName Primordial
WARNING: An operation was attempted on the primordial storage pool
which was not supported. This operation might have succeeded for other
objects in the pipeline.
Remove-StoragePool : This operation is not supported on primordial storage pools.
Activity ID: {d02ca163-e71d-4d67-9a69-705b736f5c69}
At line:1 char:1
1. Remove-StoragePool -FriendlyName Primordial
2. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (StorageWMI:ROOT/Microsoft/...SFT_StoragePool) [Remove-StoragePool], C
imException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : StorageWMI 48000,Remove-StoragePool
- What does it mean "not supported"
- How to delete this storage pool?
Solution 1:
Primordial is the default storage pool for any unprovisioned disks. It’s like pergatory for your disks before you either create a pool out of them, add them to a pool or format them as a standalone drive.
There is one primordial per storage subsystem.
I think you can effectively make the pool at least go empty by doing something like “set-disk -canpool:False”. IIRC