vCenter Converter unable to see disks on source

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I’m working on converting a physical 2008 R2 server to a virtual machine for ESX 4.1.  I installed vCenter Converter Standalone 4.3 on this machine and ran through the wizard.  When I got to the disk configuration, nothing was listed.
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Some research pointed me to this VMware KB article indicating to check the logs which are located in C:ProgramDataVMwareVMware vCenter Converter Standalonelogs.
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Upon reviewing the logs, I see the following error:

[#1] [2015-01-27 11:31:16.775 04316 warning 'App'] Failed to get info for \.PhysicalDrive0: error Read \.PhysicalDrive0 disk layout: Incorrect function (1)

Researching this error, I arrive at another VMware KB article which indicates GPT partition support was not available in vCenter Converter editions lower than 5.1 (I had installed 4.3).
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