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trying to P to V windows xp workstation and it fails

I have been attempting to P to V and older Windows XP pro workstation, but it keeps failing telling me it "cannot create a snapshot" I have successfully P to V'd several devices in the past by downloading the VMWARE VCENTER CONVERTER STAND ALONE CLIENT but this is my first attempt to use it on an XP workstation. Is the procedure different? I have even tried download the stand alone client on the local PC and tried to run the application locally, but I still get the same error; "FAILED: Unable to create a VSS snapshot of the source volume(s). Error code:
2147754776 (0x80042318)."

All advice on how to troublshoot this is welcome
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See this VMware Community thread, which posts a MS KB on how to resolve. Also, other troubleshooting/best practices following VMware KB: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1004588

Let me know if you still have an issue...


Regards.
~coolsport00
This may also help - http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1019690

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Ive had this problem I just used:

free:
Easeus Partition Master Home Edition

converted the drives to ntfs and it worked fine.