Intel® Optane™ Application Shows Error Code 0xA0040008 When Enabling Acceleration

This solution has been verified by our customers to fix the issue with these environment variables

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07/16/2019

What are you seeing?

An error code 0xA0040008 appears when attempting to enable acceleration.


How to fix it:

Before enabling acceleration, formatting the drive is necessary to ensure that there is no existing data on the SATA drive.

Perform a low-level format to resolve the issue.


Cause & More Information:

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