Sarah remembered something from a deep-dive blog she’d read last year: Change Tracking driver issues are almost always about antivirus, stale driver remnants, or missing certificates.
Same error.
At 5%, the progress bar froze.
At 2:13 AM, the conversion finished. She shut down the source, powered on the VM, and the app came up without a hitch.
A red error bubble popped up: "Unable to start the change tracking driver."
She closed her laptop, leaned back, and stared at the ceiling.
Scrolling near the failure timestamp, she found the clue:
The logs were her only friend now. She navigated to %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\VMware\VMware vCenter Converter Standalone\Logs and opened converter-worker.log .
