jump the GPT disks in converter?

Hey everybody!

Trying to convert a physical Windows 2003 which has a GPT disk, is it possible to tell converter to stop being narrow minded and let me choose the disks I want to convert? Its stupid it expel as soon as it detects a GPT disk with an error! All I want is two discs and not the GPT but unfortunately this is more like a third-party product or cloning the drive and creating a new virtual machine and restore. Seriously, I would have preferred no downtime of the converter route...

Any ideas? Or VMWare can have this us as a feature request in the future? Surely, the option to continue with a machine that does not have the GPT as system disk would be reasonable? Let the end user options on the way they travel these data if they...

Thank you!

Unplug for the GPT disk conversion, this will solve the problem with the caveat of the converter.

Also previous Converter 4.3 must not recognize GPT and probably it will pop, you need to try with.

HTH

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    I apologize for the spacing.  I'm having a little wrong with this forum edit my post.

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    Hello

    KRoy66
    The option to Reconfigure in OpenManage will appear after that he sees only 1 virtual disk?

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    Do it right now probably will save you a lot of time.

    Thank you

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