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Windows Clustering Troubleshooting: Creating a Quorum Disk error - No valid quorum partition was found on quorum disk.

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Issue

 When you add Quorum disk on a cluster using PowerShell you may see the below error:

Command used to add: Set-ClusterQuorum -Cluster SCSQL2017CL001 -NodeAndDiskMajority "Cluster Disk 3"

PS C:\Windows\system32> Set-ClusterQuorum -Cluster SCSQL2017CL001 -NodeAndDiskMajority "Cluster Disk 3"

Set-ClusterQuorum : No valid quorum partition was found on quorum disk. The disk may be offline.

At line:1 char:1

+ Set-ClusterQuorum -Cluster SCSQL2017CL001 -NodeAndDiskMajority "Clust ...

+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (:) [Set-ClusterQuorum], ClusterCmdletException

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : InvalidOperation,Microsoft.FailoverClusters.PowerShell.SetClusterQuorumCommand

PS C:\Windows\system32> Set-ClusterQuorum -Cluster SCSQL2017CL001 -NodeAndDiskMajority "Cluster Disk 2"

Set-ClusterQuorum : No valid quorum partition was found on quorum disk. The disk may be offline.

At line:1 char:1

+ Set-ClusterQuorum -Cluster SCSQL2017CL001 -NodeAndDiskMajority "Clust ...

+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (:) [Set-ClusterQuorum], ClusterCmdletException

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : InvalidOperation,Microsoft.FailoverClusters.PowerShell.SetClusterQuorumCommand

Cause

 When the disk you are trying to add is not NTFS formatted and is still in RAW format this issue will happen.

Resolution

 Go to Disk Management --> Select your Quorum Disk, Take it online --> Initialise --> Format it with NTFS File system.

Once you do this you should be able to get the quorum disk added using PowerShell.