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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.

klepp0906
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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
simryang
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The above answer works but the uniqueid needs to be in a certain format for GPT drives. Check here for more information https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/uniqueid

Display or set the GUID partition table (GPT) identifier or master boot record (MBR) signature for the basic or dynamic disk with focus. A basic or dynamic disk must be selected for this operation to succeed. Use the select disk command to select a disk and shift the focus to it.

uniqueid disk [id={<dword> | <GUID>}] [noerr]

To set the signature of the MBR disk with focus to the DWORD value 5f1b2c36, type:

uniqueid disk id=5f1b2c36

To set the identifier of the GPT disk with focus to the GUID value baf784e7-6bbd-4cfb-aaac-e86c96e166ee, type:

uniqueid disk id=baf784e7-6bbd-4cfb-aaac-e86c96e166ee
Alexander Gates
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