PVS 1912.0 Reverse imaging p2pvs volume does not contain a recognized file system

[Björn Schläfli]

Cannot reverse imaging to update vmware Tools. It worked before PVS 1912. Now p2pvs is not working. It starts the copy job and after 3/4 the following message pops up "volume does not contain a recognized file system. cannot copy boot configuration".

I've tried to use p2pvs from 7.15 CU4, but it also doesn't work.

 

Any ideas?

[Kelan Rowe]

This is a UEFI windows install? A similiar message was encoutnered with non default partition layouts.

Update to target device 2009, or install upgrade wizard from 2009, and try reverse image with that.

[Björn Schläfli]

No it's BIOS, not UEFI. Windows 10. Also tested it with server 2016 (virtual apps) a few minutes ago and it's also not working there. I'll give 2009 a try.

[Björn Schläfli]

Found it. My dynamic vdisk has a size of 100 gb. I've used a 100 gb disk lazy-zeroed in VMware vsphere for p2pvs. The VMware disk needs to be a little bit bigger in size than the virtual disk, even though the vdisk is only used 50%. I've attached a 110 gb disk lazy-zeroed instead and now it works. Thought 100 gb should be enough since the vdisk has 50% free space.