vboxmanage createfromraw file.dd file.vdi does not write the vdi file to disk at the end

[yobubba]

I have created a windows.dd file and am now trying to convert it to a vdi file. The vboxmanage command seems to run ok and the file keeps growing in size, but when the command ends the file is not in the directory.

The command I run is as follows:

vboxmanage convertfromraw windows.dd windows.vdi

[yobubba]

root@alex-Guinness:/media/Maxtor750/windowsdisk# vboxmanage convertfromraw -format VDI /media/Maxtor750/windowsXP_bkup/windowsXP.dd windowsdisk Converting from raw image file="/media/Maxtor750/windowsXP_bkup/windowsXP.dd" to file="windowsdisk"... Creating dynamic image with size 120034123776 bytes (114474MB)...

oot@alex-Guinness:/media/Maxtor750/windowsdisk# ls -l total 6331844 -rw------- 1 alex alex 6483808256 2011-03-17 16:48 windowsdisk

[yobubba]

see attached for views of two separate windows. One running create from raw and the other doing an ls on the file. the file doesn't write to the disk.

[yobubba]

changed to a usb drive and that fixed this issue

[yobubba]

changed to a different usb drive and this fixed the problem.

[Frank Mehnert]

So you mean this was a disk failure?