Converter not seeing 2nd physical drive

rmahoney · Fri Dec 16, 2022 12:38 am

I have a 500GB SATA drive in my laptop. Using a SATA to USB connector, I attached a 300GB HD I had pulled from a linux PC. I can see the 2nd physical drive in Windows disk management tool. I can also see, and browse the HD using DiskInternals Linux Reader.

However, the GUI Converter cannot see the 2nd HD. I select the P2V option, then select Physical Disk and the only thing in the physical disk dropdown is my 500GB SATA drive.

However, if I list the drives using the console command, I can see it.

V2V_ConverterConsole.exe list object=ot_disks
Opening log file 'logs\V2VConsole_Log-20221215-192855.log'.
\\?\PhysicalDrive0 Micron 1100 SATA 512GB
\\?\PhysicalDrive1 0AS

But trying to convert it fails.

V2V_ConverterConsole.exe convert in_file_name="\\?\PhysicalDrive1" out_file_type="ft_vmdk_ws_thick" out_file_name="c:\tmp\VM.vmdk"
Opening log file 'logs\V2VConsole_Log-20221215-185721.log'.
Disk not found. 1

Any ideas?

Sat Dec 17, 2022 12:30 am

Can I have the entire log, please?

rmahoney · Sat Dec 17, 2022 4:36 am

The log file name: 'logs\V2VConsole_Log-20221215-193600.log' (PID 4456)
Delete log file 'logs\V2VConsole_Log-20221215-185101.log'.
12/15 19:36:00.468 366c Facility ???INFO: main: SetDllDirectory: C:\Program Files\StarWind Software\StarWind V2V Converter\lib
12/15 19:36:00.468 366c Facility ???INFO: main: File Version: 9.0.1.268
12/15 19:36:00.468 366c Facility ???INFO: main: Load language IDR_XML_ENGLISH
12/15 19:36:00.468 366c Facility ???INFO: RunConsole: Version MajorVersion 10, MinorVersion 0, BuildNumber 19045
12/15 19:36:00.468 366c Facility ???INFO: RunConsole: V2V_ConverterConsole.exe convert in_file_name="\\?\PhysicalDrive1" out_file_type="ft_vmdk_ws_thick" out_file_name="c:\users\bob\WeatherVM.vmdk"
12/15 19:36:00.468 366c Facility ???INFO: CCommandLineManager::AddParametersForConvertCommand: in_file_name=\\?\PhysicalDrive1
12/15 19:36:00.468 366c Facility ???INFO: CCommandLineManager::AddParametersForConvertCommand: out_file_type=ft_vmdk_ws_thick
12/15 19:36:00.468 366c Facility ???INFO: CCommandLineManager::AddParametersForConvertCommand: out_file_name=c:\users\bob\WeatherVM.vmdk
12/15 19:36:00.484 366c Facility ???ERROR: RunConsole: Don't found disk - 1

rmahoney · Sat Dec 17, 2022 4:40 am

C:\Program Files\StarWind Software\StarWind V2V Converter\logs> type V2VConsole_Log-20221215-185721.log
The log file name: 'logs\V2VConsole_Log-20221215-185721.log' (PID 14860)
12/15 18:57:21.564 604 Facility ???INFO: main: SetDllDirectory: C:\Program Files\StarWind Software\StarWind V2V Converter\lib
12/15 18:57:21.564 604 Facility ???INFO: main: File Version: 9.0.1.268
12/15 18:57:21.579 604 Facility ???INFO: main: Load language IDR_XML_ENGLISH
12/15 18:57:21.579 604 Facility ???INFO: RunConsole: Version MajorVersion 10, MinorVersion 0, BuildNumber 19045
12/15 18:57:21.579 604 Facility ???INFO: RunConsole: V2V_ConverterConsole.exe convert in_file_name="\\?\PhysicalDrive1" out_file_type="ft_vmdk_ws_thick" out_file_name="c:\users\bob\WeatherVM.vmdk"
12/15 18:57:21.580 604 Facility ???INFO: CCommandLineManager::AddParametersForConvertCommand: in_file_name=\\?\PhysicalDrive1
12/15 18:57:21.580 604 Facility ???INFO: CCommandLineManager::AddParametersForConvertCommand: out_file_type=ft_vmdk_ws_thick
12/15 18:57:21.580 604 Facility ???INFO: CCommandLineManager::AddParametersForConvertCommand: out_file_name=c:\users\bob\WeatherVM.vmdk
12/15 18:57:21.598 604 Facility ???ERROR: RunConsole: Don't found disk - 1

Fri Dec 23, 2022 9:53 am

Hi,

Sincere apologies for such a delay (I thought that I did reply to this thread). I will get back to you shortly.

Tue Dec 27, 2022 10:26 am

Greetings,

It turns out that Windows might be not "reading" the volume (i.e., information on the file system). Pretty much any disk, while it is offline, is displayed like that. It needs to be initialized and formatted to let Windows see it and let GUI display it.
We are working on fixing the display problem. Thank you!