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DGcsc
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‎03-01-2016 08:21 PM

Converter - Permission to perform this operation was denied.

Hi - I have gone thru the many many post for this same issue but none of the suggestions have provided a solution...

Cloning a Physical Windows 8.1 PC to create an image on the source PC.

Converter Version is 5.5.3

UAC is disabled,

Both a Domain admin account and local admin account has been tried.

Converter is being been launched with  'Run as Administrator'

Converter has been uninstalled and reinstalled (Several times)

VMware services have been stopped and started.

GUI Log reports '2016-03-02T14:52:51.510+11:00 [03152 error 'wizardController'] Must be administrator to access physical computer'

Both accounts tried are in the administrator group.

Source Physical PC has been rebooted and started using both types of admin accounts and each connection scenarios tried.

Converter continues to report same Permission Denied error.

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LeslieBNS9
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‎11-25-2016 09:02 AM

We ran into this same problem attempting to P2V 2012 and 2012 R2 servers. The account I was using had local admin, domain admin, enterprise admin, administrators group privileges with UAC disabled and still I was getting the "Permission to perform this operation was denied" error with "Must be administrator to access physical computer" in the log.

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Finally I found a work around. On the machine I was converting I changed the Local Security Policy setting for "User Account Control: Run all administrators in Admin Approval Mode" to Disabled. I was then able to P2V the server. After the P2V I changed the setting back.

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Another work around I had was to simply use the local "Administrator" account or run the converter from the server I'm P2Ving.

- Leslie

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MikeKing
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‎05-15-2018 12:25 PM

Thanks!! This worked for me.

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ITGOGOKen
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‎09-02-2020 10:18 PM

Even simpler right click on the desktop App Icon and "Run as Administrator" this worked for me.

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CBanzet
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‎01-27-2021 02:02 PM

Right clicking and running as Administrator is what did it for me.

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AbiodunAdeyinka
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‎10-31-2021 01:30 AM

it worked for me. Thanks

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wwa-bart
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‎04-23-2022 05:37 PM

Thank you so much, this worked for me!

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Baseliner35
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‎11-08-2022 09:47 AM

Excellent - great spot and article

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