Trying to setup my node for the first time. Its having problems

[jammerdan]

You are operating one node with 2 different Node IDs where they need to be the same ID.
I don’t know what you did to cause this, but it seems like for some reason your “storage-dir-verification” file in the storage directory has not the correct same ID like your identity.
You can’t mix different storage with different identites, every node with its storage data is 100% unique.
If there is no data yet in your storage folder then I would delete it and re-run the setup command with the existing identity. This would re-create the storage folders and a new matching storage-dir-verification file.

Removed storage-dir-verification - How to recover?

Storage-dir-verification creation happens on node setup. I don’t know how to do it on Windows, but on Linux, if you run the initial setup command the file gets created along with all the initial config files and directory: Just make sure that you don’t overwrite your existing node. I would suggest to create a temporary directory, copy your identity in there and run the setup command pointing all paths into this temporary location as all initial files and folders will be created.