Replacing a disk in Windows Storage Spaces

1. Open Husky Assistant, and on the Storage Management page, click Set up your storage to open the Storage Spaces page. In Windows you can open the Settings page and click Storage > Manage Storage Spaces.

2. On the Storage Spaces page, check for any drive warnings for the storage space and the physical drives in the Manage Storage Spaces overview.

   Note that a drive will still be visible in the Manage Storage Spaces overview even though it has been physically removed from the machine.

3. Open your Husky IVO unit and remove the physical disk, taking care to remove the correct disk.

4. Insert a replacement disk and close your Husky IVO unit.

When you have inserted a replacement disk into your Husky IVO unit, you must register the new drive in Windows Storage Spaces.

1. Open Husky Assistant, and on the Storage Management page, click Set up your storage to open the Storage Spaces page. In Windows you can open the Settings page and click Storage > Manage Storage Spaces.

2. On the Manage Storage Spaces page, select Change settings and the select Add drives to open the Select drives to add to the storage pool page.

3. On the Select drives to add to the storage pool page, select the replacement drive you just inserted, and make sure the Optimize to spread existing data across all drives check box is selected.

4. Click the Add drives button at the bottom of the page.
   The new drive will be displayed on the list of physical drives, along with the failed drive you just physically removed.

After adding the replacement disk to the storage pool, you can remove the failed, faulty, or failing disk from the pool.

1. Open Husky Assistant, and on the Storage Management page, click Set up your storage to open the Storage Spaces page. In Windows you can open the Settings page and click Storage > Manage Storage Spaces.

2. On the Manage Storage Spaces page, locate the disk you want to remove and click Remove.
   
   If the Remove option is not displayed, it may have been disabled. Click Change settings to enable and display the Remove option.

   If you remove a functioning (non-failing) drive from the storage pool and then re-insert it, the drive will be displayed as having an Unrecognized configuration in the storage spaces overview. You must reset the drive by selecting Reset before you can add it to the storage pool again.

After you have removed the faulty disk from the storage pool, you must optimize the replacement disk to move data to the replacement drive and optimize the capacity of the storage pool if you have not selected the Optimize to spread existing data across all drives check box when you added the replacement disk.

If you are unsure if you have selected the Optimize to spread existing data across all drives check box when you added the replacement disk, you can optimize the replacement disk again.

1. Open Husky Assistant, and on the Storage Management page, click Set up your storage to open the Storage Spaces page. In Windows you can open the Settings page and click Storage > Manage Storage Spaces.

2. On the Manage Storage Spaces page, locate the replacement disk you want to prepare for operations and click Optimize drive usage.

If the Optimize drive usage option is not displayed, it may have been disabled. Click Change settings to display and then enable the Optimize drive usage option.