I recently ran into some issues with a couple storage pools on my Windows Server 2012 Essentials machine. None of the disks were bad, but the long and the short of it is I had to mark a good disk as "Retired" in an attempt to get it ejected from a pool so that I could repair things.
The strange thing is that now this disk appears to be listed twice with the same disk friendly name when I run "Get-PhysicalDisk" in PowerShell - once marked as "Retired", the second time as available for pooling.
PowerShell output showing the Object ID's of the disk (other system disks removed from the output):
1 2 3 4 5 6 | PS C:\Windows\system32> Get-PhysicalDisk | ft FriendlyName, ObjectId, BusType –auto
FriendlyName ObjectId BusType
------------ -------- -------
PhysicalDisk9 {b1b3fc5e-ccd7-11e2-b1dc-806e6f6e6963} RAID
PhysicalDisk9 {10e2b595-a097-11e3-943a-806e6f6e6963} RAID
|
I have tried setting a new friendly name on the retired disk using Set-PhysicalDisk, but this is the result:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 | PS C:\Windows\system32> Set-PhysicalDisk -UniqueId b1b3fc5e-ccd7-11e2-b1dc-806e6f6e6963 -NewFriendlyName OldPhysicalDisk
9
Set-PhysicalDisk : The requested object could not be found.
At line:1 char:1
+ Set-PhysicalDisk -UniqueId b1b3fc5e-ccd7-11e2-b1dc-806e6f6e6963 -NewFriendlyName ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (PS_StorageCmdlets:ROOT/Microsoft/..._StorageCmdlets) [Set-PhysicalDisk]
, CimException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : MI RESULT 6,Set-PhysicalDisk
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Is
there anything else I can do to rename the phantom retired disk or
remove it altogether? Note that it does not show up in Disk Manager or
Server Manager.
