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

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.

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.