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STATUS_STORAGE_TOPOLOGY_ID_MISMATCH
The storage topology changed underneath the caller
This status belongs to the lower storage, disk, virtual-disk, or file-system repair path. For STATUS_STORAGE_TOPOLOGY_ID_MISMATCH, treat it as a boundary between the caller and the storage stack, not as a generic application error.
This status is a stale-topology guard. It means the caller issued an operation using a topology identity that no longer matches the storage stack, often after device arrival/removal, multipath change, failover, or virtualization update.
For STATUS_STORAGE_TOPOLOGY_ID_MISMATCH, the most useful evidence is the failing operation, device or volume identity, storage-event log, disk health data, and whether the volume was online, read-only, virtualized, encrypted, compressed, sparse, or under repair.
What to inspect
- Refresh the storage topology before retrying.
- Correlate with device arrival, removal, failover, or path-change events.
- Avoid applying cached disk/volume identities across topology changes.
References for STATUS_STORAGE_TOPOLOGY_ID_MISMATCH
- Microsoft Open Specifications: NTSTATUS values
- Microsoft: Troubleshoot Disk Management
- Microsoft: Disk Management snap-in statuses
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