Windows – How to solve this DiskID conflict amongst the external disks

hard drivewindows 10windows firewall

I ran a game I hadn't ran in some time, and it popped up with a firewall rule request. I thought it was odd as I knew one should have already been present.

I examined the rule and the path to the exe was not correct. It should have been S:\path\to\exe and instead displayed as E:6\path\to\exe

absurd, i'd never seen anything like it so i changed it manually. Next startup, it prompted me again and recreated the rule i'd modified, wonky path n all.

So i begun digging. In event viewer was "Disk 12 has the same disk identifiers as one or more disks connected to the system. Go to Microsoft's support website (http://support.microsoft.com) and search for KB2983588 to resolve the issue."

Turns out disk 12 was the problem drive. (after more scrolling turns out it was all my external drives)

I checked all the guid's with diskpart and they were all unique. However upon running Get-PhysicalDisk | select-object FriendlyName,UniqueIdFormat,SerialNumber,UniqueId I was presented with the following.

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I can only assume that those UniqueId's are the issue, and are whats effecting the path's being all weird in windows firewall.

Does a means exist to fix this? Aside from the windows firewall path's becoming undiscernable, I'm concerned about other repercussions. Elsewhere notes that this will also effect storage spaces functionality.

Best Answer

If each disk has its own disk number, you can change uniqueid.

But I did not test safety.. Sorry, do with your own risk..

Run powershell as administrator privilege.

Maximize powershell window to identify whole information.

Run Get-PhysicalDisk and you can check Number and Size(last column)

Run diskpart

Run list disk and check infomation from Get-PhysicalDisk

Run select disk 'number'

Run uniqueid disk ID='new_disk_id'

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Get-PhysicalDisk

Number FriendlyName                   SerialNumber         MediaType CanPool OperationalStatus HealthStatus Usage
------ ------------                   ------------         --------- ------- ----------------- ------------ -----
1      Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 500GB 0025_3853_0140_300B. SSD       False   OK                Healthy      Auto-Select
0      TS512GSSD230S                  E925840739           SSD       False   OK                Healthy      Auto-Select


PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Get-PhysicalDisk

Number FriendlyName                   SerialNumber         MediaType CanPool OperationalStatus HealthStatus Usage            Size
------ ------------                   ------------         --------- ------- ----------------- ------------ -----            ----
1      Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 500GB 0025_3853_0140_300B. SSD       False   OK                Healthy      Auto-Select 465.76 GB
0      TS512GSSD230S                  E925840739           SSD       False   OK                Healthy      Auto-Select 476.94 GB


PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> diskpart

Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.18362.1

Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.
On computer: LAPTOP-ABCDE1

DISKPART> list disk

  Disk ###  Status         Size     Free     Dyn  Gpt
  --------  -------------  -------  -------  ---  ---
  Disk 0    Online          476 GB      0 B        *
  Disk 1    Online          465 GB  3072 KB        *

DISKPART> select disk 1

Disk 1 is now the selected disk.

DISKPART> uniqueid disk ID=5000000000000002
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