Vmware Vcenter Converter Standalone Unable To Start The Change Tracking Driver Today

At 5%, the progress bar froze.

She checked if the driver was even present. On the source machine, she opened C:\Windows\System32\drivers and looked for vmware-ctk.sys . Nothing. That meant Converter never installed it properly—or the OS blocked it. At 5%, the progress bar froze

She disabled the AV real-time scanner temporarily. No change. disabled Hyper-V from Windows Features

The logs were her only friend now. She navigated to %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\VMware\VMware vCenter Converter Standalone\Logs and opened converter-worker.log . removed Device Guard via registry

Sarah ran bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off , disabled Hyper-V from Windows Features, removed Device Guard via registry, and rebooted twice (the second to finalize).