Found Less Disks Than Expected During Partitioning

When attempting a migration to a physical target the "Creating and Partitioning Volumes" step fails with an error similar to the following:

 

1. Open the ..\PlateSpin Migrate Server\Web\web.config file with Notepad

2. Locate the following two lines:

 

<add key="DisableX2PDiskRuntimeValidation" value="false" />
<add key="DisableX2PPartitionRuntimeValidation" value="false" />

 

3. Change both values to "true"

4. Run the ..\PlateSpin Migrate Server\bin\RestartPlateSpinServer\RestartPlateSpinServer.exe

This error is caused by extra disks existing on the target.  For example, if there is a virtual CDROM drive or virtual FDD attached to the target it may get discovered when registering the physical machine.  This can be verified by confirming the following information:

 

1. On the target machine enter the following commands:

 

 

There will only be 8 disks listed (or whatever number the error states are seen). 

 

2. In the Migrate client right-click on the physical target and select Properties

3. Go to the Drive tab and select the Physical Disks radio button.  There will be additional physical disks listed with a size of 0MB