I get that error message when I try to encrypt a freshly created Windows 10 virtual machine.
- VM is shutdown before each attempt.
- It doesn't matter if I encrypt all files or just the TPM-related files.
- Tried al sorts of secure passwords.
- Ran chkdisk on host HD. Also verified NTFS disk-access credentials for folder/files for the VM. I removed file/folder compression from the host, too.
- VM Workstation 17.6.2 build-24409262 downloaded and installed yesterday
- Windows 10 22h2 64-bit ISO created from windows media creation tool, also downloaded yesterday
- Host is running Windows 8.1 64-bit
- I had taken a snapshot of the VM prior to my first attempt, but deleted the snapshot after getting the warning that it needed to be deleted before encryption.
- Restarted the VM then shutdown it down after snapshot was removed
- Restarted workstation
- Virtual disk current size: 10.8 GB
- Virtual Disk Max size 100GB
- Space left on host disk: 673.4 GB
Hope someone can tell me how to proceed, I'm out of ideas.
Thanks in advance.