Data only available conversion disk VMDK

Just curious.   I would like to switch from Windows 2003 to Windows 2008.   I have my setup of physical server with 2 physical disks.  The first has only the OS system while the second contains only the data.   Is it possible to simply convert the vmdk DATA disc?   I figure I could P2V server, remove the data of the VM disk, blow to remove the system disk and add an another vDisk with Windows 2008, then attach the data disk to the virtual computer.   This will probably work, but it's a lot of work just to maintain the data disk.   So, I was wondering if it is possible to simply convert the data disk and store it offline.   Then all I have to do is to create a new virtual machine with Windows 2008 and add the data VMDK disk.

You can do the P2V and select only the data disc... the conversion fails at the end, cause the reconfiguration is not possible because the system disk has not been converted, but the. For the data disk VMDK will be on the data store.

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