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Hi,
rather than explain it from scratch please read this thread.
disk-ltngt-has-the-same-disk-identifiers-as-one-or-more-disks-connected-to-the-system
It's a bug that has been there for years and today October 2021 its still an issue.
its to do with the way USB external drives attach to windows 10.
I also notice that Microsoft has not only ignored the issue but has stopped responding to forum questions about it.
Its not a hard drive issue and its not a MPIO issue.
So my question is . How far away are we from having this issue fixed?
I'm looking at you Microsoft
Erick
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January 4th 2024 and I am facing the exact same issue on my PC.
All 3 are from 3 different companies but all internal SATA drives. One is an SSD and the other 2 are HDDs.
PS C:\Users\harde> Get-PhysicalDisk | select-object FriendlyName,UniqueIdFormat,SerialNumber,UniqueId
FriendlyName UniqueIdFormat SerialNumber UniqueId
NVMe CT1000P3SSD8 SCSI Name String 6479_A77B_A000_0211. eui.110200A07BA77964
GIGABYTE GP-GSM2NE3512GNTD SCSI Name String SN193808929615 _00000001. 1987GIGABYTE GP-GSM2NE3512GNTD …
INTEL SSDSC2BW180A3L EUI64 CVCV304400TV180EGN 7CD8440000000001
ST2000DM005-2CW102 EUI64 WFM2TXEQ 7CD8440000000001
Hitachi HUA723030ALA641 EUI64 YVJ3AB6A 7CD8440000000001
Replying to confirm I was able to resolve this for my PC. This might help someone else.
At some point I had tried AMD StoreMI on my PC and removed it. But it had replaced my "Standard AHCI SATA controller" with a different driver called "AMD virtualized AHCI controller for StoreMI". As soon as I replaced it with the standard AHCI controller driver, the correct unique IDs started showing for all my SATA drives.