Windows Storage Pool Problem

[Combat squirrel]

As title im running a storage pool on windows 8 with 5x2tb drives giving a real space usage of ~9tb.

The drive got full (mistake of something being duplicated), and I deleted the unneeded files....and from 'my computer' it is now correctly showing that ~4tb of data is on the drive..........

However storage spaces is still reporting the drive is full from the control panel?! ... iv googled but cannot find much of anything relevent.

So My computer reports the drive has ~4tb on it, storage spaces control panel is reporting its still full at ~9tb, how do I fix this ?

 

[Combat squirrel]

Anyone?

 

[Combat squirrel]

Thanks people.

Know its a old thread revival, the dedup worked over night thankfully.

However a new problem now! :/ lol

I am having real issue with windows server 2012 standard I got on a backup PC I am building.

In short when reviewing primordial drives, only *some* of them appear, I have tracked the issue down to it only showing drives and only allowing the use of drives attached to the same controller (which removes the point of having storage spaces in the 1st place for me), I have found work around guides of forcing storage spaces via powershell but this just failed to create the storage space correctly (via pools and virtual drives etc etc)

I can at most create a 4 x 2tb storage space, but I want to create an 8 x 2tb drive space across 2 controllers.

Weirdly my 5 drive storage space on my windows 8 work machine works just fine across different controllers (3 attached via RAID and 2 via SAS)

Any clues? I am almost certain its a bug, but why on earth have MS not sorted this yet? Its a pretty critical problem.

 

[Combat squirrel]

Anyone?