Error message: The File Replication Service has detected that one or more volumes on this computer have the same Volume Serial Number
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009Received the following error today on a new server that I promoted to a domain controller that would trigger every time the server was started.
Event Type: Error
Event Source: NtFrs
Event Category: None
Event ID: 13571
Date: 8/4/2009
Time: 3:14:10 PM
User: N/A
Computer: servername
Description:
The File Replication Service has detected that one or more volumes on this computer have the same Volume Serial Number. File Replication Service does not support this configuration. Files may not replicate until this conflict is resolved.
Volume Serial Number : 1234-5678
List of volumes that have this Volume Serial Number: c:, c:
The output of “dir” command displays the Volume Serial Number before listing the contents of the folder.
The server was a RAID 5 configuration with a single volume setup for the disks and no external disks attached. The one thing that I noticed is that the servers C: drive was not configured with a volume label.
To fix the error all I had to do was open up Computer Management -> Storage -> Disk Management and select properties on the disk and give the C: drive a label. Restarting the server no longer gives the error.