I had the same problem, and just found the solution after trying just about everything I could think of, including "clean"ing the disk in DISKPART, using the disk manager UI to reinitialize, etc. I know you're probably all set, but for others, like me, who end up here searching for a solution...
The magic incantation in PowerShell is - "Reset-PhysicalDisk". Here's what I did:
Get-PhysicalDisk !list the physical disks
Get-PhysicalDisk -SerialNumber 123456 |FL !get details for the specific disk
Reset-PhysicalDisk -UniqueId 50000xxxxxxxxxx !reset the disk
That fixed everything - now it come up as "CanPool = True".