Perhaps "vssadmin list shadows"?
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Kurt Buff
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2017 4:19 PM
To: ntsysadm
Subject: [NTSysADM] WTF? Way too many Volume/Disk GUIDs
I've got a 2012R2 file server with some problems. It recently locked up, and we
had to force boot it through the VMware interface.
It's got 13 drives with letters, plus the usual system reserved partition.
Here are the volume GUIDs from PS:
# GWMI -namespace root\cimv2 -class win32_volume | select driveletter,
deviceid | sort deviceid | ft -auto
driveletter deviceid
----------- --------
T: \\?\Volume{0b58699a-c6d4-11e5-80ef-005056b43cf4}\
J: \\?\Volume{27499b01-b5b4-43d7-98ae-17dbd948607e}\
G: \\?\Volume{3e50ec99-13b5-4d52-8091-2feeb695943f}\
\\?\Volume{3ec25e24-a333-11e3-80b4-806e6f6e6963}\
C: \\?\Volume{3ec25e25-a333-11e3-80b4-806e6f6e6963}\
D: \\?\Volume{3ec25e29-a333-11e3-80b4-806e6f6e6963}\
P: \\?\Volume{410169c9-33c3-11e6-80fb-005056b43cf4}\
X: \\?\Volume{515ebcdb-5c2e-11e4-80d4-005056b43cf4}\
K: \\?\Volume{79470a07-567a-11e4-80d3-005056b43cf4}\
I: \\?\Volume{88aa852a-1610-4875-8265-bb3c0612e5ef}\
W: \\?\Volume{a94520fe-16c6-11e6-80f7-005056b43cf4}\
S: \\?\Volume{cba78efd-34cd-11e6-80fb-005056b43cf4}\
U: \\?\Volume{cc4e4794-f6ef-4141-980a-87a984c191b5}\
M: \\?\Volume{d1ddfc3d-fa04-11e6-8109-005056b43cf4}\
After the machine was back up and running, I started combing the system
eventlog, and noticed something weird - there were a lot of volume GUIDs that
didn't match my list above.
I finally exported the system event log as a CSV file (it goes back as far as
January of 2016), and cut and sorted the output, and found 2891 unique volume
GUIDs!
That's just insane, and I have no explanation for this.
Does anyone here have a clue to what this is about?
Kurt
