Windows 10: Disk 4 has the same disk identifiers ... KB2983588... doesn't resolve

From the event log:

Disk 4 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.

Let me digress...
Funny that, as the support forum lists causes that ASSUME the same disk is really being referenced.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2983588
My disk 4 is one of 4 physical disks.

A Microsoft MVP at technet laughably pointed the user to the Answers community, where I sometimes try to fill in answers from these forums and always point out the forums here are better here.
I found a post in these forums where the user seemed to enable some raid bios setting, but I don't see anything similar for my laptop.

Suggestions?

:)

 

Win 10 not seeing all the HDs.

Not sure what you want from the viewer.

Here is some of the things listed.

Before I run trouble shooter.

I will try to run trouble shooter again and see if it shows anything different afterwards.

Also looking for KB2983588 was NOT helpful for me anyway.

The device, \Device\Harddisk2\DR2, is not ready for access yet.

The device, \Device\Harddisk3\DR3, is not ready for access yet.

Disk 3 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.

Disk 5 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.

 

Duplicate Hard Drive GUIDs

I have similar situation:

Migrated recently from Win7 Ultimate to Win10 Pro.

I have configured dynamic volume on two identical HDD.

Everything works fine on Win7 but on Win10 I got following sequence:

Warning: Disk 2 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.

Warning: Disk 3 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.

Error: volmgr: Crash dump initialization failed!

 

Altaro Support Center | How can I change the Disk ID of a drive?

NOTE: When you open the command prompt, it has to be Command Prompt (Admin). Win + X will get you the programs listing with Command Prompt (Admin) on it.

Is this a disk that you have previously cloned to another installed in your system? That's the normal cause of this. The unique disk ID you change it to can be any 8 HEX Character value, so long as it isn't the same as any of the others on your system.

 

These are 4 drives that I have separately installed, none cloned. have been using a long while (years for disks 1 and 4), but windows started complaining after I used EaseUS partition manager to expand a volume on disk 2 (not disk 4).





Update:
My other disks have a GUID of some kind for the disk ID's example: {CCA97581-....-....-....-09517f9E0A63}
Disk 4 however just has an 8 character hex code.

Also, the table seems odd about the GPT




Having said all that, all the disks have unique IDs.

FINAL UPDATE:
Seems (not entirely sure) that the GPT was hosed somehow. Anyway, rebuilt it using EaseUS and now all the drives have guids.

DISKPART now shows * under each GPT
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Glad you got it sorted out! I was going to recommend to convert to GPT with MiniTool Partition Wizard.