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Migrating a physical Windows 2003 Server to VMware (P2V) error code: 2147549183

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    Jac Timms
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Tried to migrate a physical Windows 2003 server into a VMware VM using vCenter Converter tonight and was giving me the following error at about 91% both times I tried…

“FAILED: Unable to create a VSS snapshot of the source volume(s). Error code: 2147549183 (0x8000FFFF)”

Turned out to be caused by a corrupt registry key on the source server, which can be manually fixed however Microsoft have handy a fix-it app that solved the problem for me straight away… Download and run it from here…

Hope that helps someone else. 🙂