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Error 0x80E70004 in Windows storage spaces

A Windows flavoured RAID with 4096 bytes sector

I was creating a storage space with two WD Elements Hard Drives and bumbed into this windows error related to the hard drives cluster size.

This conversation

https://www.elevenforum.com/t/the-physical-disks-sector-size-is-not-supported-by-the-storage-pool-0x80e70004.11004/

and this tool https://www.hdd-tool.com/index.html helped me a lot.

I was successful using this procedure:

1: In NIUBI, right click on the disk you want to add, delete all partitions, apply.
2: In diskmgmt.msc, create a NFTS partition with 4096 cluster size
3: In NIUBI, delete the partition you just created
4: Reboot
5: Open storage spaces and add the disk