{"id":24845,"date":"2022-07-23T15:53:48","date_gmt":"2022-07-23T14:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/?p=24845"},"modified":"2022-07-23T16:37:52","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T15:37:52","slug":"windows-disk-offline-with-signature-collision-in-disk-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/24845\/windows-disk-offline-with-signature-collision-in-disk-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows: disk offline with signature collision in disk management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How to fix an offline disk with signature collision.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>If you clone a disk on Windows and leave it connected to your computer, then Windows will take the disk offline, because it has the same signature, which is basically an ID each disk has. You can see this in the disk management:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sig_en_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"891\" height=\"319\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24846\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sig_en_1.png 891w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sig_en_1-300x107.png 300w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sig_en_1-768x275.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 891px) 100vw, 891px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nOffline (The disk is offline because it has a signature collision with another disk that is online)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tjDScTykUZE\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of content<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/24845\/windows-disk-offline-with-signature-collision-in-disk-management\/#Check_disk_ID_with_diskpart\" >Check disk ID with diskpart<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/24845\/windows-disk-offline-with-signature-collision-in-disk-management\/#Generate_a_new_ID\" >Generate a new ID<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Check_disk_ID_with_diskpart\"><\/span>Check disk ID with diskpart<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>To check the ID of a disk you can use the tool &#8220;diskpart&#8221;. To start the tool just open a command line in Windows with admin rights and type in &#8220;diskpart&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Once the tool is started you can list the disks:<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nlist disk\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>This will show up the disks as shown in disk management. To select a disk enter the following command:<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nselect disk 1\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>You can output the disk ID with this command:<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nuniqueid disk\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>If you do that for the two conflicting disks, you see, that they have the same ID.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sig_en_2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"543\" height=\"547\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24848\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sig_en_2.png 543w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sig_en_2-298x300.png 298w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sig_en_2-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 543px) 100vw, 543px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Generate_a_new_ID\"><\/span>Generate a new ID<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Using the disk again is very easy, you just have to right-click on the disk and select &#8220;Online&#8221;. The disk is available again. In the background, a new ID is generated automatically.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sig_en_3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"738\" height=\"202\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24850\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sig_en_3.png 738w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sig_en_3-300x82.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 738px) 100vw, 738px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With diskpart you can also set a specific ID with the following command:<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nuniqueid disk ID=44336bc6-e9ad-4225-9cd1-46fa20c60c58\r\n<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to fix an offline disk with signature collision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1555],"tags":[1558],"class_list":["post-24845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software-en","tag-windows-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}