2TB Drive Size Limit on Conversion

Contemporary drive sizes now exceed 2 TB in size. However, the current hypervisor from VMware only supports VMDK virtual disk files converted from partitions of under 2 TB in size. Previous versions of Hyper-V also limited VHD files to under 2 TB as well. This meant that any ShadowProtect image file converted using the image conversion tool to VHD or VMDK format must come from a source partition that is under 2 TB in total size. The actual size of the drive's contents or the image file, even if it is under 2 TB in size, isn't important. If the source partition is over 2 TB then these hypervisors won't mount the file.

A workaround is to partition drives larger than 2 TB into volumes smaller than 2 TB.

Microsoft introduced the new VHDx virtual file format for Windows 8 and Server 2012 (and newer) which does support volumes greater than 2 TB. With the introduction of CrossPlatform, the Recovery Environment and image conversion tool also support the VHDx format.