Failed to control device

  • 7010824
  • 24-Sep-2012
  • 24-Sep-2012

Environment

PlateSpin Migrate 9.2 or earlier

Situation

When attempting an X2P migration the job fails at the Creating and Partitioning Volumes step with the following error (only visible in the diagnostics):

System.Exception: Failed to control the device. ---> System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: Incorrect function

Resolution

In order to resolve this issue, ensure that the target is booting from BIOS, instead of UEFI.  Then, verify if the disks are flagged as GPT disks:

1. Run the following commands:

diskpart
list disk

2. If any disks have an asterix under the GPT column, run the following:

select disk x (where x is the number of the disk flagged for GPT)
clean

Note: cleaning a disk will eliminate all partitions.

It is not necessary to register the target again prior to retrying the migration, unless the target has been rebooted.