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Unable to Add a Disk to an Array in the Intel® Optane™ Memory and Storage Management Application as a Disk Contains Data

Content Type: Error Messages   |   Article ID: 000090601   |   Last Reviewed: 05/06/2022

Environment

Operating System

Windows 11, 64-bit*, Windows® 10, 64-bit*
Intel® Optane™ Memory and Storage Management

Description

After trying to add a drive to an array in the Manage tab in the Intel® Optane™ Memory and Storage Management application, 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 added to an array can contain any data.

Remaining data must be removed to continue:

  1. Press Windows* key+r keys to open Run Dialog.
  2. Type diskpart and press OK.
  3. Press Yes on the User Account Control prompt.
  4. Type list disk. Notice the * beside any disk you wish to select in the GPT column.
  5. Select the disk to be uninitialized by typing select disk <number>.
  6. Type clean.
  7. Type list disk. Notice the * is no longer there.
  8. Repeat for any additional disks.

Proceed to make additions to the Array.

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