Hi,
I am trying to convert a Win 7 physical machine to a virtual machine using VMware vCentre Converter Standalone. The process fails at 96% with an error message "FAILED: Unable to find system volume. Reconfiguration is not possible".
The original physical machine has four partitions namely System Reserved, C:, 😧 and Recovery. System Reserved is marked as Active and I presume this partition contains the boot configuration data required to boot up the machine after virtualization (please correct me if I am wrong).
I have tried the solution offered at the following link but unfortunately i can't get it to work.
And I don't understand the solution mentioned in this link:
FAILED: Unable to find the system volume, reconfiguration is not possible.
I thought I could repair the converted virtual machine (with 96%) using windows installation disc but i can't get my external USB DVD ROM to be read by the virtual machine during boot up. I cannot boot the machine from this DVD ROM because it is not recognized in the list of devices in BIOS settings. I am using Workstation 14. So that's another problem that I am facing.
If someone could please advise on what steps I could take to resolve this, it would be much appreciated. Thank you!
Could you upload log bundle?
Did you try to only run reconfiguration on the destination machine? ('configure machine' button)
As for the logs - if the it was converted as remote Windows machine - attach the agent log from the source machine; if it is this local machine - the worker log.
Regards,
Plamen
Instead of the converter, I would try using Macrium Reflect. Any paid version has the "Dissimilar hardware restore":
Maybe you can try to use DISK2VHD and see if the same, check the link below with steps:
Do you have RAID configured?