physical drive to vmdk

[fpefpe]

Hello --- I just converted a 2tb drive to a vmdk -- the drive was about 50% full --- vmdk file is around 800gb -- when go to mount it, the partition is incorrect is there a way to debug this

[yaroslav (staff)]

Welcome to StarWind Forum. What is the source disk (dynamic or fixed) and destination?

[fpefpe]

The source is fixed via USB connection the target is a local vmdk file that grows to size as needed

[yaroslav (staff)]

Great, thanks for letting me know.

[fpefpe]

thanks for your reply --- I have a screen shot of the drive in the disk manager if you need to see what this look like

[yaroslav (staff)]

Just to be clear: are you converting a USB volume to a virtual one? What is the output disk? Is it fixed or dynamic?

[fpefpe]

yes this is a usb attached fixed drive 1 primary partition with a ntfs file system converting to a vmdk growable drive ---

here is a link to a screen shot of the disk manager --- disk4 is source and disk4 and disk6 is the mounted vmdk file

https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code ... MN5SLo3CR7

[yaroslav (staff)]

Try converting that USB to a fixed drive.

[fpefpe]

not sure what you mean by "fixed drive" the end result has to be a vmdk file --- do you mean that the drive should be connected to the computer sata interface?

[yaroslav (staff)]

There are 2 conversion options: growable (dynamic) and fixed. See more at https://community.spiceworks.com/t/what ... 6/553727/2

[fpefpe]

I don't think my target drive has 2tb free l will have look at that

[yaroslav (staff)]

No worries.
Could you please let me know if you have access to your data on that 800 GB device?

[fpefpe]

No if you look at the link there are 4 partitions that map to junk windows does not even a sign a drive letter

[yaroslav (staff)]

Could you please share the conversion logs with me?

[fpefpe]

where are the logs saved?