You may try the following:
1 - make a P2V without drive E: -> from your first post you said this work 100%, right? If yes, keep this VM offline and don't delete;
2 - make a P2V of only drive E: and use a different name for the VM, for example VM-DRIVE-E -> this will fail on reconfiguration step, as expected, since the destination VM don't have the system boot volume, BUT don't delete the VM after finish the conversion;
After complete steps 1 and 2, remove the .vmdk created on step 2 from the VM-DRIVE-E and assign to the VM created on step 1... Power On the VM created on step 1 and check if everything works.