Try to repair the storage space using an elevated PowerShell shell. One needs first to retrieve the names of the physical and virtual disks : Get-PhysicalDisk Get-VirtualDisk Assuming that the friendly name of a failed physical disk is `PhysicalDisk-1` and the virtual disk is named `Prod1 Virtual Disk` (the first command may be superfluous here) : Set-PhysicalDisk –FriendlyName 'PhysicalDisk-1' –Usage Retired Repair-VirtualDisk –FriendlyName 'Prod1 Virtual Disk' Remove-PhysicalDisk –FriendlyName 'PhysicalDisk-1'