Windows 10 Remove-PhysicalDisk for disk which is marked retired fails

Sanath Kumar

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Below error is seen sometimes when I try to remove a disk from storagepool.
Remove-PhysicalDisk : One or more physical disks could not be removed because they are still in use.

Extended information:
The storage pool could not relocate data from one or more physical disks.

Physical Disks:
{0aa97094-5f62-4ef8-fb76-8eb66f1c11f7}

Activity ID: {9030d143-747c-4ce3-a45c-9c4e76481ac9}
At line:1 char:1
+ Remove-PhysicalDisk -PhysicalDisks (Get-PhysicalDisk -UniqueId '60022 ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~..


Following is the sequence of commands that I run to remove a physicaldisk:
Set-PhysicalDisk -UniqueId '' -Usage Retired
Repair-VirtualDisk -FriendlyName LucidityVD1
Remove-PhysicalDisk -StoragePoolFriendlyName 'testSP1' -PhysicalDisks (Get-PhysicalDisk -UniqueId '' ) -Confirm:$false

This works most of the time, But sometimes fails. I am not able to find the reason why this fails.
Please Let me know the possible reasons why this could fail.
 
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As it states in the error the disk is still in use. If it's just been marked retired you may just need to wait a bit, or you'll need to determine what has an open handle to it and clear the handles up. Windows does lazy writes which means even after a file copy appears to be complete it may not have actually completed. Common issue when trying to eject USB drives too
 
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Thank you for the response.
How do I make sure that I clear all the handles to this disk so that I forcefully remove this disk? Is there some powershell command to clear all the handles?
 
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Disable storage pool and then remove disk.
 
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Solution
Disable storage pool and then remove disk
 
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