Storage Spaces: The physical disk's sector size is not supported by the storage pool. (0x80E70004)

Sometimes when trying to create a storage space, you may receive the following error:

This error means that the drive needs to be reset before being added to a storage pool.

To resolve the issue:

First run Powershell as Administrator:

Then run the following command to list all drives:

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2. Get-PhysicalDisk | select UniqueId,FriendlyName,SerialNumber,Size,CanPool
   
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Then use the output of that command to identify the problematic drive(s).  The drives needing to be reset WILL NOT be the C:\ drive of your PC and WILL have CanPool set to False.

Notate the UniqueId of the specified drive.

Last, we need to reset the drive.

WARNING:  This will erase all data on the specified drive.  Make extra sure you have selected the correct one.

Now run the following command 

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2. Reset-PhysicalDisk -UniqueId "ReplaceThisWithTheUniqueIdOfTheDriveYouNeedToReset"
   
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Once this is complete, you may continue with creating the storage space.

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