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Storage Spaces drops Logical Drive Assignment after Reboot

I was off and running with what I thought was a great solution to my backup problem. Unfortunately, I didn't consider reboot.

My "Virtual Drive" was assigned drive "D". Following a Windows update and reboot last night, Drive D is no longer visible. My Storage Spaces is comprised of 2 8TB external drives.

Is there a way to recover from this without starting over? And why would anyone even use this feature if it won't survive a reboot?

Ideas anyone?
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I'm not sure I follow and want to get clarity here.
My "Virtual Drive" was assigned drive "D". Following a Windows update and reboot last night, Drive D is no longer visible. My Storage Spaces is comprised of 2 8TB external drives

Is this configured on a windows box/Linux/mac/server etc?
Can you see the drive letter under computer management?
Did you go back to configuration of storage spaces and see if its still listed ?
Can you access it by typing in manually the path i.e

\\drive\folder
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When setting up Storage Spaces (a Windows 8.1 and 10 feature), you identify the drives you want to include. In my case, I selected (2) external  USB drives 8 tb each for a total of approx. 14.5 tb usable storage. Storage Spaces assigns a drive number, although you can probably pick another. That drive number, in my case "D" is what I use with my backup program iDrive to backup several mapped drives.

My computer rebooted automatically after a Windows update and the drive number disappeared. When opening Storage Spaces there is no indication drive D ever existed. The same is true in Disk Management. It doesn't show a drive D or the external drives. Device Manager, however, continues to show both external drives.

What I'm trying to understand is how to make D visible again, but more importantly, if this is a characteristic of Storage Spaces (Can't reboot) - which in my opinion, makes it a pretty worthless feature.
So you are effectively using RAID-0 for your Backups?

Is this a temporary space, or somewhere you intend to store multiple backups?

RAID-0 is OK as a temporary work space for something you can easily regenerate, but not suitable as a long-term storage of multiple Backups!
I think I understand Backups and whatever pitfalls it may or may not have. The problem I'm trying to solve, or at a minimum, better understand, is Storage Spaces, not Backups. Storage Spaces is a relatively new Windows feature and very specific on how to cluster multiple drives into one logical drive. It's not a generic storage problem. You either understand it or you don't. Only a Storage Spaces expert is going to be able to help me here.
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