Windows 2019 Storage Spaces: primordial pool disks shows all disks, but 2nd physical ssd disk is missing when I create a new storage pool

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8 disks:

Disk 0 is sata boot ssd

Disk 1 is ssd

Disk 2 and 3: 3TB + 4TB HDDs

Disk 4 is ssd

Disk 5 and 6: 3TB + 4TB HDDs

Disk 6: 1TB Unix disk

Disk 1 to 5 all show up under Volumes\Disks, but only 1 SSD is shown under Storage Pools\Physical Disks (that are available to the New Storage Pool wizard). I can swap and hot unplug, but whatever I do... Only 1 ssd is shown.

PS: the 2 SSDs were used as a mirror of each other. I broke the mirror, recreated it and broke it again. All looks good in Disk Administrator, no missing disks are shown. I even did a windows server repair upgrade: no changes.

http://tekhead.it/blog/2013/05/windows-server-2012-storage-spaces-missing-disks/ had me do:

Get-PhysicalDisk | ft FriendlyName, UniqueId, ObjectId, BusType –auto

And while all Disk IDs with diskpart were unique, Get-PhysicalDisk gave the same UniqueId for both SSDs (0000000000000000).

Their solution was for AMD BIOS systems: enable raid in the bios on both disks but I have a Supermicro Intel server and setting the sata options to raid just makes the system unbootable :(

PS: I told the BIOS which disks were SSD and which were HDD. The option was news to me but it's set now :) Get-PhysicalDisk knows what's an ssd or a hdd too.

What to do? How to give both SSDs different UniqueId's? Where and how are they set and why are they all 0s to begin with!? :)

Thanks :)

tags: windows server 2019 primordial storage space missing physical disk

Xiaowei He 9,911 Reputation points

2021-01-29T07:21:00.293+00:00

Hi,

I am doing research on this issue, if there's any update, I will get back as soon as possbile.
Best Regards,
Anne
Micro Zoft 1 Reputation point

2021-01-29T11:30:45.467+00:00

Apparently it can't be fixed? :(

Change Unique ID of HDD - Stack Overflow - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20501543/change-unique-id-of-hdd

But how did Windows make them both 0000000 to begin with? Not giving up yet, but... Sigh :(
Micro Zoft 1 Reputation point

2021-01-29T11:37:16.68+00:00

Disk Unique ID - PowerShell and WMI - Ask the Experts - IDERA Community - https://community.idera.com/database-tools/powershell/ask_the_experts/f/powershell_and_wmi-24/20120/disk-unique-id

I'll try converting to MBR, maybe it gives some inspiration to you too?
Micro Zoft 1 Reputation point

2021-01-29T13:04:55.307+00:00

The exact UniqueId for both SSDs is 16 0's (0000000000000000), so a hexadecimal string I suppose?

The FriendlyName's are both correct and differ from each other.

Get-PhysicalDisk uniqueId is 0000000000000000 - Google Search - https://www.google.com/search?biw=360&bih=611&ei=9PMTYPLxB6j0kgX4wb74CQ&q=Get-PhysicalDisk+uniqueId+is+0000000000000000&oq=Get-PhysicalDisk+uniqueId+is+0000000000000000

Micro Zoft 1

From How to Change the Disk Signature of a Drive Without Losing Existing Data or Reformatting (howtohaven.com) - https://www.howtohaven.com/system/change-disk-signature.shtml I have this output (edited disks 2,3,5,6 out for shortness):

DISKPART> select disk 1

Disk 1 is now the selected disk.

DISKPART> uniqueid disk

Disk ID: {56E47B0D-1F92-4991-917D-5465C93C7238}

DISKPART> list disk

  Disk ###  Status         Size     Free     Dyn  Gpt
  --------  -------------  -------  -------  ---  ---
  Disk 0    Online         1788 GB      0 B
* Disk 1    Online          223 GB   223 GB        *
  Disk 4    Online          223 GB   223 GB        *
  Disk 7    Online          931 GB  1024 KB        *
  Disk 8    Online           28 GB      0 B

DISKPART> select disk 4

Disk 4 is now the selected disk.

DISKPART> uniqueid disk

Disk ID: {8CF0F579-C64B-47B6-8F09-F2352CC84E09}

Micro Zoft 1

Get-PhysicalDisk | ft FriendlyName, UniqueId, ObjectId, BusType -auto

FriendlyName            UniqueId                               ObjectId
------------            --------                               --------
ATA Patriot Burst       0000000000000000                       {1}\\WINBEAST\root/Microsoft/Windows/Storage/Providers_v2\SPACES_PhysicalD...
ATA ADATA SU650         0000000000000000                       {1}\\WINBEAST\root/Microsoft/Windows/Storage/Providers_v2\SPACES_PhysicalD…

Micro Zoft 1 Reputation point

2021-01-29T13:23:45+00:00

Didn't do anything.
Micro Zoft 1 Reputation point

2021-01-31T15:33:38.26+00:00
Things I still need to investigate;

https://www.raymond.cc/blog/changing-or-spoofing-hard-disk-hardware-serial-number-and-volume-id/

https://www.wintips.org/how-to-change-hard-disks-volume-serial-number-volume-id/

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-hardware/help-me-with-changing-my-hdds-hwid/cdf390de-06ab-4ce6-89ed-fafdd1793a76

But I suspect all those solutions won't touch the Storage Spaces' UniqueId :/

Still, I appreciate the links someone sent me!
Micro Zoft 1 Reputation point

2021-02-16T21:19:22.607+00:00

I "solved" it by buying a new NVMe and a new SSD. Problem solved :/'

See https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_other-files/windows-2019-storage-spaces-primordial-pool-shows/e6c302ad-3d60-4e4b-823f-b70d30423135?tm=1613498115071

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