Summary
How to clear the data from drives to be able to mark a drive as a spare with Intel® Rapid Storage Technology (Intel® RST)
Description
After selecting a disk to be marked as a spare in the Manage tab, the following error is encountered: The operation cannot be performed because one or more of the selected disk(s) contains data
Resolution
In the Intel® Optane™ Memory and Storage Management application, none of the disks selected to be a spare can contain any data.
Remaining data must be removed to continue:
- Press Windows* key+r keys to open Run Dialog.
- Type diskpart and press OK.
- Press Yes on the User Account Control prompt.
- Type list disk.. Notice the * beside any disk you wish to select in the GPT column.
- Select the disk to be uninitialized by typing select disk <number>.
- Type clean.
- Type list disk. Notice the * is no longer there.
- Repeat for any additional disks.
Proceed to mark as spare any drives you wish in the application.