Windows 10 Storage Spaces issue confirmed by Microsoft

Windows 10 version 2004 has an issue that prevents some PCs from accessing Storage Spaces.

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What you need to know

Microsoftrecently confirmedan issue affecting some PCs running the Windows 10 May 2020 Update. The update causes some PCs to not be ableto access Storage Spaces. Additionally, some configurations cause a partition of Storage Spaces to show RAW in Disk Manager. Right now, there isn’t a fix for the issue, but Microsoft is investigating it.

The issue was first spotted byWindows Latestand we reported on the issue earlier this week alongside several otherproblems with the Windows 10 May 2020 Update.

Microsoft does not specify how many PCs are affected by this issue. It does, however, specify that there is no workaround for the issue right now. Instead, you can mark Storage Spaces as read only. Here are the steps to do so, as outlined by Microsoft.

Microsoft notes that it does not recommend running the chkdsk command on any device affected by this issue.

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