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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?

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Can you please try something like Disk2VHD and see if the conversion completes?

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?

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.