File converter read error

[jerryk1234]

Hello!

Trying out the V2V converter. I am converting the C: on a Windows box to a Virtual Box image to run under Linux. So far so good. It's about 500GB of stuff. The conversion dies somewhere - it says there's a read failure. But it does not say what file ( or what sector ) it failed to read. How to troubleshoot? The destination file is on a new/empty 1-tb SATA SSD.

Chkdsk finds no problems in the source drive.

Does V2V Converter keep a log file?

[yaroslav (staff)]

Welcome to StarWind Forum!
Can you please try something like Disk2VHD and see if the conversion completes?

[jerryk1234]

Tried disk2vhd first. No joy. It terminated with an error. Trying disk2vhd again. Started it yesterday, it is still running today. I'm pretty sure it's stuck. Source drive is a Samsung NVME SSD, and dest drive is a Samsung SATA SSD. Motherboard is a 2020-vintage XEON with 64G of ECC RAM. Should reasonably do the whole job in an hour or so.

According to Task Manager, disk2vhd is using between 0 to 0.9% of the CPU, 159.0MB of memory. The destination file exists, but it is zero bytes long.

An earlier run did produce a large output file. But it terminated with some sort of undefined read error.

Do these tools copy files? Or do they do a nybble copy, sector by sector?

[yaroslav (staff)]

It looks like there's indeed something with that disk.
StarWind V2V copies sector by sector. What I am thinking is using something like Macrium Reflect to reflect to VHDX that you create and attach to your host. Could help.
V2V can be used afterward, once you have a VHD with data there.