How to change Hardware IDs names of external drives

Up front: I know how to update the "Friendly Name" of devices. A good tutorial can be found on:

TUTORIAL: How to change device names in Device Manager | Windows 8 Help Forums

When running VMware Workstation and connecting an external USB Drive from host, VMware displays the "Hardware IDs" rather than the "Friendly Names"

A long shot, as probably this is firmware based, i.e. in this case only Western Digital, but would it be possible to change the 'Hardware ID' name into a 'Friendly Name' as well?

Thanks.
(Windows 10 x64 18363.720)



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Thanks. I tried, regretfully it did not work. I just read on answers.microsoft

"... the only way is to change or upgrade hardware.
Hardware ID is calculated from devices' IDs and user has no influence to this process unfortunately.
"

And also "all drives of this type will have the same hardware ID"

So basically it is impossible, regretfully so.

Thanks anyhow.