Storage Spaces: Cannot Create Pool 0x00000032

Right click your ‘Start Menu’ button and click ‘Windows Powershell (Admin)’.

In the window for powershell paste this code.

‘Get-PhysicalDisk | ft FriendlyName, SerialNumber, UniqueId -auto’

You will then get a list something like this:

Friendly Name                                                Serial Number                                  UniqueId
———— ———— ——–
Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 1000GB     0025_3858_019D_XXXX              eui.00253858019XXXXX
Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 500GB        0025_3851_9150_XXXX              eui.002538519150XXXX
Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB                  S21JNXBG40XXXXX                     500253D8400XXXXX
Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB                  S3NXNF0JA0XXXXX                     500253D8425XXXXX

Now rest the disks you want to use with your storage pool by entering

Reset-PhysicalDisk -UniqueId “YOUR DISKS ID”    

Now you should be able to add the drives to your Storage Pool. 

Should all your drives have the same friendly as they are essentially the same disk like the two 850 EVO drives above, then run this command

Reset-PhysicalDisk -FriendlyName “Disk1” 

and repeat for all the drives you want to reset in order.