Error: "Cannot convert file. The event log file is corrupted. (Win32 error: 1500)" when trying to (4263489)

If you run the Evt2Repository.exe tool on a Windows 2008 machine to import events from an event log saved to an .evt file on a pre-Windows 2008 computer, the tool fails with an error message saying the event log file is corrupted.

To work around this problem, you can do one of the following:

- Process the file with Evt2Repository.exe on a Windows 2003 or Windows 2000 InTrust server machine.

- Open the .evt file with Windows 2008 Event Viewer and save it in the .evtx format. Then run Evt2Repository.exe again to import events from the saved .evtx file.

- Convert the .evt file to an .evtx using the following command (below). Then run Evt2Repository.exe again to import events from the newly created .evtx file.