I converted my backup server running BE System Recovery 8.5 on a Windows 2003 R2 environment to a virtual machine on my VMware ESXi 4.1.0 host. After some testing I was ready to move the virtual machine back it original physical machine. I created a backup of the virtual server and performed a BE System Recovery restore using the Virtual machine backup image. The Virtual machine was created from the powered on physical machine yet when I attempted the restore the process got to 99% completion when it prompted the error "Error EA3905F3: Cluster beyond end".
I tried the restore multiple times with various options selected but I continued to receive this error. Even though the disk size of the virtual machine matched the disk size of the physical machine, because I had read earlier posts indicating the problem was suspected to be a result of the imaged disk being too large for the disk being restored, I decided to change the size of the physical disk by changing the raid array from a mirror to a stripe array which doubled the drive capacity of the system I was restoring to.
The next restore was successful. I hope this helps someone finish thier day sooner than they otherwise would have.
