James Cadd's questions

I'm trying to attach a storage space in my server but am receiving and access denied error. The back story is that the storage space was working fine on windows home server 2012, but then I paved the system drive (not part of the storage space) and installed a fresh copy of WHS2012 R2. The storage space no longer appears to be available. Any idea how the permissions can be fixed?

PS C:\Users\Admin> get-virtualdisk

FriendlyName        ResiliencySettingNa OperationalStatus   HealthStatus        IsManualAttach                     Size
                    me
------------        ------------------- -----------------   ------------        --------------                     ----
Documents           Mirror              Detached            Unknown             True                            1.81 TB


PS C:\Users\Admin> connect-virtualdisk -FriendlyName "Documents"
connect-virtualdisk : Access denied
At line:1 char:1
+ connect-virtualdisk -FriendlyName "Documents"
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : PermissionDenied: (StorageWMI:ROOT/Microsoft/...SFT_VirtualDisk) [Connect-VirtualDisk],
CimException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : StorageWMI 40001,Connect-VirtualDisk

EDIT: For those coming after me, see this artcle: http://windowsitpro.com/systems-management/q-after-i-reinstalled-windows-server-2012-my-storage-spaces-are-no-longer-writabl

Note the important step about set-virtualdisk -IsManualAttach $False to get the storage space to automatically show up.

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