Disk: Get-TargetResource "non-terminating" error with Azure Machine Configuration

[billings7]

Problem description

When used with Azure Machine Configuration, this resource fails with the message:

This event indicates that a non-terminating error was thrown when DSCEngine was executing Get-TargetResource on DSC_Disk DSC resource. FullyQualifiedErrorId is Exception,Invoke-DeviceIoControlWrapperForDevDriveQuery. Error Message is Exception calling "DeviceIoControlWrapperForDevDriveQuery" with "1" argument(s): "DeviceIoControl unable to query if volume is a Dev Drive volume".

Did some testing and it looks like DeviceIoControlWrapperForDevDriveQuery always throws an exception if the drive is not a Dev Drive, rather than returning false.

Works fine when running via Invoke-DscResource, but I guess Azure Machine Configuration still checks for any silent errors (can see the error in $Error). Whether it should be checking for these kinds of errors, I don't know, but probably best if the error was avoided anyway.

Verbose logs

<GCLOG>[2025-07-18 18:27:34.194] [PID 3324] [TID 9676] [TELEMETRY DSCManagedEngine] [WARNING] [00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000] [:0] Job 85dec822-e0c0-48ea-b3e0-f2475199f2cb : This event indicates that a non-terminating error was thrown when DSCEngine was executing Get-TargetResource on DSC_Disk DSC resource. FullyQualifiedErrorId is Exception,Invoke-DeviceIoControlWrapperForDevDriveQuery. Error Message is Exception calling "DeviceIoControlWrapperForDevDriveQuery" with "1" argument(s): "DeviceIoControl unable to query if volume is a Dev Drive volume".</GCLOG>
<GCLOG>[2025-07-18 18:27:34.647] [PID 3324] [TID 9676] [TELEMETRY DSCEngine] [ERROR] [00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000] [C:\__w\1\s\src\dsc\engine\ConfigurationManager\LocalConfigManagerHelper.c:5991] Job 85dec822-e0c0-48ea-b3e0-f2475199f2cb : MIResult: 1
Error Message: Exception calling "DeviceIoControlWrapperForDevDriveQuery" with "1" argument(s): "DeviceIoControl unable to query if volume is a Dev Drive volume"
Message ID: Exception,Invoke-DeviceIoControlWrapperForDevDriveQuery
Error Category: 0
Error Code: 1
Error Type: MI</GCLOG>
<GCLOG>[2025-07-18 18:27:34.696] [PID 3324] [TID 9676] [TELEMETRY DSCEngine] [ERROR] [00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000] [C:\__w\1\s\src\dsc\engine\ca\CAInfrastructure\CAEngine.c:1773] Job 85dec822-e0c0-48ea-b3e0-f2475199f2cb : This event indicates that failure happens when LCM is processing the configuration. Error Id is 1. Error Detail is The SendConfigurationApply function did not succeed.. Resource Id is [Disk]CVolume and Source Info is ...\dsc\Storage.ps1::20::5::Disk. Error Message is The PowerShell DSC resource '[Disk]CVolume' with SourceInfo '...\dsc\Storage.ps1::20::5::Disk' threw one or more non-terminating errors while running the Get-TargetResource functionality. These errors are logged to the ETW channel called Microsoft-Windows-DSC/Operational. Refer to this channel for more details..</GCLOG>
<GCLOG>[2025-07-18 18:27:34.700] [PID 3324] [TID 9676] [TELEMETRY DSCEngine] [ERROR] [00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000] [C:\__w\1\s\src\dsc\engine\ConfigurationManager\LocalConfigManagerHelper.c:6044] Job 85dec822-e0c0-48ea-b3e0-f2475199f2cb : MIResult: 1
Error Message: The PowerShell DSC resource '[Disk]CVolume' with SourceInfo '...\dsc\Storage.ps1::20::5::Disk' threw one or more non-terminating errors while running the Get-TargetResource functionality. These errors are logged to the ETW channel called Microsoft-Windows-DSC/Operational. Refer to this channel for more details.
Message ID: NonTerminatingErrorFromProvider
Error Category: 7
Error Code: 1
Error Type: MI</GCLOG>
<GCLOG>[2025-07-18 18:27:37.612] [PID 3324] [TID 9208] [TELEMETRY Pull Client] [INFO] [85dec822-e0c0-48ea-b3e0-f2475199f2cb] Sending assignment report for assignment 'Storage'</GCLOG>
<GCLOG>[2025-07-18 18:27:41.898] [PID 3324] [TID 9208] [TELEMETRY Reports] [INFO] [85dec822-e0c0-48ea-b3e0-f2475199f2cb] Sent assignment report for job '85dec822-e0c0-48ea-b3e0-f2475199f2cb'. Compliance = false'</GCLOG>
<GCLOG>[2025-07-18 18:27:41.903] [PID 3324] [TID 9208] [TELEMETRY WORKER] [ERROR] [989cf275-18af-4c8d-a91a-1b64cdc02550] Failed to Run Consistency for 'Storage' DSC Error : Exception calling "DeviceIoControlWrapperForDevDriveQuery" with "1" argument(s): "DeviceIoControl unable to query if volume is a Dev Drive volume"
The PowerShell DSC resource '[Disk]CVolume' with SourceInfo '...\dsc\Storage.ps1::20::5::Disk' threw one or more non-terminating errors while running the Get-TargetResource functionality. These errors are logged to the ETW channel called Microsoft-Windows-DSC/Operational. Refer to this channel for more details.
, Call Stack : 
1. dsc::dsc_settings::policy_from_assignment_name [0x7ffa27956280]
2. dsc::dsc_settings::policy_from_assignment_name [0x7ffa27956280]
3. DSCLib_GetDscConfiguration [0x7ffa21b99960]
4. DSCLib_GetDscConfiguration [0x7ffa21b99960]
5. dsc::consistency_operations::consistency_operations [0x7ffa25de3a90]
6. dsc::consistency_operations::consistency_operations [0x7ffa25de3a90]
7. dsc::consistency_operations::consistency_operations [0x7ffa25de3a90]
8. dsc::consistency_operations::consistency_operations [0x7ffa25de3a90]
9. dsc::gc_operations::update_timer [0x7ffa27912680]
c. wcsrchr [0x7ffa46083660]
d. BaseThreadInitThunk [0x7ffa4727e8c0]
e. RtlUserThreadStart [0x7ffa487714d0]
</GCLOG>

DSC configuration

Configuration Storage
{
    Import-DscResource -ModuleName StorageDsc -Name Disk

    Disk CVolume
    {
        DiskId = 0
        DriveLetter = 'C'
        FSLabel = 'OS'
        AllowDestructive = $true
    }
}

Storage

Suggested solution

Changing this line:

StorageDsc/source/Modules/StorageDsc.Common/StorageDsc.Common.psm1

Line 308 in 71dd784

inputVolumeInfo.FlagMask = PERSISTENT_VOLUME_STATE_DEV_VOLUME;

to

inputVolumeInfo.FlagMask = uint.MaxValue;

seems to resolve this issue from some testing.

Could also change the -ErrorAction here to Ignore to account for any other errors that could happen.

StorageDsc/source/DSCResources/DSC_Disk/DSC_Disk.psm1

Lines 140 to 142 in 71dd784

	$DevDrive = Test-DevDriveVolume `
	-VolumeGuidPath $volume.UniqueId `
	-ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

Operating system the target node is running

Azure Machine Configuration run on:
Windows Server 22025 Datacenter Azure Edition, 24H2, OS Build 26100.4270
OsName               : Microsoft Windows Server 2025 Datacenter Azure Edition
OsOperatingSystemSKU : 407
OsArchitecture       : 64-bit
WindowsVersion       : 2009
WindowsBuildLabEx    : 26100.1.amd64fre.ge_release.240331-1435
OsLanguage           : en-US
OsMuiLanguages       : {en-US, en-GB}

Tested locally on:
Windows 11, 24H2, OS Build 26100.4349
OsName               : Microsoft Windows 11 Enterprise
OsOperatingSystemSKU : EnterpriseEdition
OsArchitecture       : 64-bit
WindowsVersion       : 2009
WindowsBuildLabEx    : 26100.1.amd64fre.ge_release.240331-1435
OsLanguage           : en-GB
OsMuiLanguages       : {en-GB, en-US}

PowerShell version and build the target node is running

Name                           Value
----                           -----
PSVersion                      7.5.2
PSEdition                      Core
GitCommitId                    7.5.2
OS                             Microsoft Windows 10.0.26100
Platform                       Win32NT
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0…}
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1
WSManStackVersion              3.0

StorageDsc version

StorageDsc 6.0.1   C:\Users\...\Documents\PowerShell\Modules\StorageDsc\6.0.1\StorageDsc.psd1