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• Windows easy transfer to a new computer with two flash drives

  I've updated a computer windows vista to windows 7 and I used easy transfer to transfer files and the user account. I had to use two flash drives to save files due to the lack of space on the disks. now, my problem is that when I run easy transfer on the new installation of windows 7 only allows me to transfer what is on the first hard drive, but when I put the second disc and try to run easy transfer. He tells me that I need to insurt a disk and click Retry or continue. so, how can I get the rest of the files that are located on the second disc transferred?

  Hello

  Welcome to the Microsoft community. I apologize for the delay in response. I will certainly help you with the problem you are experiencing. I would like to ask you the following question:

  • What all the options that you see when you connect the second USB drive?

  • You are able to view options such as the DVD, USB, network drive etc. ?

  This problem may occur when you are not using the right settings. For more information, see the links below.

  Windows Easy Transfer

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/products/features/Windows-easy-transfer

  How to use Windows Easy Transfer to migrate files and settings from a Windows computer to an another Windows Vista-based com

  https://support.Microsoft.com/en-us/KB/928634

  Transferring files and settings: frequently asked questions

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/transferring-files-settings-FAQ#1TC=Windows-7

  Hope this information was useful.

• Windows Easy Transfer ends with the restart Message

  I'm trying to use Windows easy transfer to transfer files from my old laptop Windows XP 32 - bit for my new laptop Wn7 64-bit. I downloaded the XP application usng the laptop Win7 and transferred on the XP laptop and installed there. I used my network wireless existing as a transfer medium. I copied the transfer key from the old to the new laptop, and the transfer seemed to progress saying there were 390 files, which seems a little low. When 390 have been transferred, both computers will report the following error:

  Windows Easy Transfer is unable to continue. If please restart the computer and try again.

  I restarted once the two laptops and WET the results in the same error.

  Should I just try a different transfer method?

  Yes.

  Windows Easy Transfer and files and Settings Transfer seized were never so great because they are really made to move (IMHO) from one system to the other * at time of the original operating system release * because they start pretty quickly leaving aside the settings and applications.  Since you are going from Windows XP to Windows 7, use this:

  http://www.Microsoft.com/Windows/en-us/XP/transfer-your-data.aspx

  If you want to transfer both applications - you can spend a little money on the product (23.95 USDs as you move from XP) and get the professional version:
  http://www.laplink.com/pcmoverexpressxpeol
  [More precisely: https://store.laplink.com/59/purl-MSFTLP-ProXPBuyNow ]

  Good luck!

• Windows Easy Transfer password problem

  I had problems with my computer then before sending it for repair, I saved all my stuff on an external hard drive. Now I have my computer is back with a new hard drive and would like to transfer the information on the external hard drive on my computer repaired with the new hard drive. The files and what-not are save to the external hard drive as one. MIG file. I plugged the external hard drive to my computer then "computer" then "E: (external hard drive). I clicked on the. MIG file and before you start Windows Easy Transfer it tells me that something is opening and if I'm the one behind him to click on "continue". I click on 'Continue' and then a Windows easy transfer opens and asks me a password. I type the windows admin password and it tells me it's the wrong password. What is the password that is supposed to be if not the password admin I looked around and it doesn't seem like there's a kind of generic password (for example, 1234). What should I do?

  I hope that someone a this forum can help out me.

  Thank you

  Honsei

  Hello

  To add to what Mr.SuzukiBiker commented, this isn't the admin password it takes here, but the PASSWORD KEY.

  Follow the steps mentioned in the article to create a new access key.

  http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/migrating-Vista-using-Windows-easy-transfer.html (See Fig.9)

  Hope this helps

• Windows Easy Transfer for transferring from Windows Vista (32-bit) for Windows 7/8:

  I'm currently running Vista 32 bit and you want to use Easy Transfer to a new PC with Windows 7/8.  After you download the file, it seeks an update and then told me that my PC (Vista) is not suitable for the software. Any ideas where I should look?
  All available info indicates that it should work like a dream!

  Hello

  Thank you to contact the community Microsoft and we will be happy to help you with your concern.

  According to the description, it seems that you are having problems with Windows Easy Transfer.

  1. which method do you use to transfer using Windows Easy transfer?

  2. What is the exact error associated to is not suitable for the software?

  Download and install the software from the link below and check.

  http://www.Microsoft.com/en-US/Download/details.aspx?ID=14179

  Answer to us if you are having problems with Windows Easy Transfer or any other matter of Windows, and I'd be happy to help you.

  Good day!

  Hope this information helps.

• Can I remove the file 'SaveData.mig' after I run Windows Easy Transfer?

  Can I remove the file 'SaveData.mig' after I run Windows Easy Transfer?

  I used easy transfer to move files from an old computer to my new about 12 months ago. The SaveData.mig file takes 22 GB of space on the new computer. I would like to remove it but I don't know if it will mess up all my files that have been transferred to my new computer. Anyone know if I can delete this file in order to free up space? Thank you

  I agree with Mohdrafi - you can remove safely; However, you should have a more recent backup of your current files just to be on the right side (image FULL weekly backup and an incremental backup every day for an external HARD drive - I've seen too many people get burned when their drive hard breaks down or something worse and then they lose all their precious documents (, photos, audio and other files).  There ARE recovery procedures, but they don't always work, and they don't always get everything (especially if you expect to solve the problem or continue to use the PC in the meantime)- and depending on your version of Vista.  Delete this file will NOT affect the files and settings that you restored using the process.  Could have deleted it hours after that the process has been done (once you have a good backup) and it would have been very well then.  If you have a good backup, I can see no reason whatsoever to keep the file.

  If the normal delete function in Vista doesn't work, try using one of the following free products to remove the file.  Unlocker to: http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Miscellaneous/Unlocker.shtml or file Assassin http://www.malwarebytes.org/fileassassin.php (with or without forcing the deletion: http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/12/27/force-delete-cannot-delete-locked-or-in-used-files-or-folders-with-fileassassin/). These programs often work when normal functions remove Vista not work correctly.

  Congratulations to the use of Easy Transfer - this is a pretty cool tool isn't it?  Not sure how many threads that we have here people with issues or recoving given him--I saw a lot.  It seems easy on the surface, but when it doesn't work it can become quite complex and aggravating (and I know people who have unfortunately never were able to retrieve their data and settings no matter what we tried).

  I hope this helps.

  Good luck!

  Lorien - MCSA/MCSE/network + / has + - if this post solves your problem, please click the 'Mark as answer' or 'Useful' button at the top of this message. Marking a post as answer, or relatively useful, you help others find the answer more quickly.

• Slow Windows easy transfer

  I am preparing my Compaq desktop PC for Windows XP Media 2005 conversion to Windows 7 and am following the steps on the Windows website.  I downloaded and successfully installed Windows Easy Transfer and I use an external hard drive with 610 GB of free space to store the backup data.  WET said I have about 370 GB for transfer and seems to be * very * slow.  The estimated process time ramps upward to 11 days and continues to grow rapidly.  Is this a known issue?  I'm doing something wrong?  Any comments or advice would be greatly appreciated.
  Kirk

  It is a large data set, so I'm not surprised its taking so long, here is a link to a preview of the performance upgrade of Windows 7:
  http://blogs.technet.com/chris_hernandez/archive/2009/09/02/Windows-7-upgrade-performance.aspx http://www.activewin.com http://adacosta.spaces.live.com Andre Da Costa

• With the help of Windows Easy Transfer - need to transfer the old HARD drive to new computer - old HDD attached as external drive for the new usb port of the computer - help

  New computer installed Windows 7 and gave me an option to use Windows easy transfer to transfer files, data, programs, etc. from my old computer.  All I have from the old computer's hard drive; a lightning strike fried either food or his mother by car.  I have attached the hard as a disk to the new computer using the usb cable provided with the external hard drive case.  It is recognized as drive E: on the new computer.

  Trying to follow the instructions given by the Windows Easy Transfer software.  Get the software/folder from the old hard drive (drive E), but trying to run the software that I can't seem to do anything on the old disk.  When asked what is the former or the new computer - I respond to old, but no new file is created for the transfer.  When I answer again, a new file is created on the new computer (rather than the old HDD) and then he transferred again to new.  I can't create a file of whatever it is I want to transfer from the old HDD.

  I can't use an easy transfer cable because the old computer does not only the hard drive.  I can't connect to a network for the same reason.  I only have the hard that I can attach to the new computer.  But I can't get the new computer to process the old hard drive separately for transfer purposes.  The only other option I can think of is to attach the old HDD to another computer, and then try to run the software in this way, but I don't want just the stuff on the old hard drive a copy to the other computer.

  Can anyone help?  Suggest how to get the old hard drive files, data, transferred etc. to the new computer.  What are the steps?

  Thank you.

  Do yourself a favor, with the old drive connected externally, in the browser, simply copy the data files to the location of Documents of the PC win7. You can not copy programs, they need to be reinstalled from media origonal. You can copy all the downloaded files instalation

  You may need to take possession of your old documents folders - see win help to find out how

• Windows Easy Transfer - How can I get rid of this?

  My computer is a Lenovo Thinkpad T400 with Windows 7 Professional.

  One of my friends scanning a lot of pictures and then sent me to a Toshiba flash drive. When I plugged the flash drive on my computer, he started something called Windows Easy Transfer and wanted to know if I wanted to transfer everything. I had no idea what he was talking about, but I thought, well, Yes, I want to transfer the pictures that my friend sent me. I assumed that Windows Easy Transfer, it was how it was done. I mean, it's a Windows program; I just didn't know it would be bad to use.

  Well, when it was over, I got this box labeled "Windows Easy Transfer reports." It seems that a lot of software, settings and a user account with the name of my friend about it was transferred to my computer!

  I don't want that! What's happening on Earth?

  Now I have things on my computer as "215 Apps - DealVault," 'Adobe Flash Player 12 ActiveX,' 'ArcSoft media 2' 'Conduit SearchProtect', 'Mindspark Interactive Network HeadlineAlley Toolbar and InboxAce Toolbar,' 'PC TEKNIX Extreme Flash Player,' "SmartApps DealVault," "Intel Graphics Media Accelerator Driver", 'Intel TV Wizard' and so on! I recognize even more of that, and a lot of it sounds like malware, or stuff of advertising and badly behaved toolbars that I don't want on my computer!

  I searched "Uninstall programs" and none of them are still on the list! Where are they and how do I get rid of them?

  I also do not want user account from my friend on my computer, and I can't find that either. According to the report of transfer, "users successfully transferred: [name] transferred to user." But when I use change user, there is no account he marked [name].

  In addition, under the transfer report tab, there is a line called 'System Settings', and this line does not provide even a Details link.

  When all this stuff has been on my computer and how do I get rid of him?

  Hello squirm,

  We apologize for the late response.

  It seems you've got some corrupt short icons of the user account of your friends through Windows easy transfer.

  I suggest you perform a restore of the system to cancel the easy transfer.

  Check out the link:

  System restore

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/products/features/system-restore

  Note: When you use system restore to restore the computer to a previous state, the programs and updates that you have installed are removed.

  Hope the helps of information. Please respond with the status of the issue so that we can help you further.

  Thank you

• Windows Easy Transfer cannot log on to your domain account

  I'm moving to Win 7 RC 1 to Win 7 Pro.  Last night, I used WET to move my files, etc to an external USB hard drive.  To date, I did a clean install of Windows 7 Pro and I tried to transfer it to my computer, but refuses to Win 7 Pro with the error code: 'Windows Easy Transfer can't connect to your domain account'?  What is happening with this?  I've never belonged to a field when using RC 1.  How can I get around that?  If I can't get my stuff, I'm screwed.

  Looks I groused too early and celebrated too soon.  When I finally got the command line tool to work, it has been indeed zipping through archive WET.  I could not see at first was that it generated an error in creating file under each extraction, the formidable «double C:\»  " in the path of restoration that has been much discussed elsewhere on this forum.  In desperation, I went back to the wizard to see if could make it work.  I finally made using the wizard to create two new user accounts to receive the archived files!  To say the least, the final solution was contrary to intuition.  On my system from RC1, I haven't had a single account user.  During the clean install of the RTM, I used the same handle and password as before under RC1.  It seemed logical to me that it would be WET looking for; silly me!  In any case, it worked and I'm going through the long chore to install my programs.  I guess "All's well that ends well", but I don't know why it worked.  From a security point of view, it seems that it shouldn't have.  Oh, well...  I guess that MS did not get enough to test our skills of problem solving :-(  I hope my experience and solution is useful to someone.

  Da * Larry, elder in Geek

  * Da is Mandarin for 'Big' or 'broad '.  At 6'2 "& 240 + I am, at least in China"
   www.dalarry.com

• Loss of historical emails using Windows Easy Transfer

  Was previously running Windows XP with Office 2010, including Outlook 2010. Want to upgrade to Office 2013 which does not work on Windows XP so decided to upgrade to Windows 7 Home premium.  Following the instructions in Microsoft that I used Windows Easy Transfer to save all settings and data by following the instructions on an external hard drive. Has also created a copy of My Documents just to be safe. Following the instructions I installed Windows 7, reinstalled the data and settings from the Windows download file is then installed Office 2013.

  All data files appear to be present and my contacts were all in Outlook 2013 however no historical emails were present. I had a lot of stored in subfolders under Inbox and sent messages and everything disappeared.

  It seems strange that all contacts were copied and transferred across using Windows Easy Transfer, but not historical emails. There is no specific reference to this problem in Microsoft "upgrade Windows XP to Windows 7 instruction set.

  Is it true that the files containing the e-mails were copied, but Outlook 2013 is looking for them in a different place, or does Windows Easy Transfer copy not the Inbox and sent to the files that would be a huge gap?

  Windows Easy Transfer is not good to backup Outlook emails at all.

  If you did a custom installation, check if the Windows.old folder to the root of the hard disk to see if your. PST file is there and copy it to your Documents folder in Windows 7.

  Save the folder outlook located under:

  C:\Windows.old\Documents and Settings\Account_Name\Local Settings\Microsoft\Outlook

  When you migrate to Windows 7, and then reinstall Microsoft Office, just backup copy of the contents of the folder Outlook in the following location:

  C:\Users\Account_Name\AppData\Local\Microsoft\

• I try to install the windows easy transfer and I get the error.

  I try to install the windows easy transfer and I get the error, "the version of windows you have installed does not match the update you are trying to install.  I download and install the 32 and 64-bit version for XP.  I also downloaded and tried both 32 and 64-bit version for windows 7.

  On which version of Windows 7 you are trying to install Easy Transfer?  Easy transfer seems to be automatically installed on Windows 7. You run Easy Transfer on Windows 7 to 'prepare' the copy, you need to be running on the 'old' PC.

• Problem with the transfer of files from the computer Windows XP to Windows 7 using Windows Easy Transfer.

  Original title: Put WET on the old computer

  When I try to use WET to transfer from old Win XP Win 7 again, I need trasfer WET to the old computer.  So I choose this option and move on to the part where it says "Select the USB flash drive where you want to save WET".  Well, in the window is the word "computer" I can't click on it, nor is the OK button light up.  What's wrong?

  Hello

  Thanks for posting in Microsoft Community!

  It seems that you have a problem with the transfer of files from the computer Windows XP to Windows 7 using Windows Easy Transfer.

  I imagine the inconvenience that you are experiencing. We are here to help and guide you in the right direction.

  I suggest you try the procedure described in the link and check if it helps.

  Transferring files and settings: frequently asked questions
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/transferring-files-and-settings-frequently-asked-questions

  For more information, please see the links.

  Transfer files and settings from another computer
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-in/Windows7/transfer-files-and-settings-from-another-computer

  Windows Easy transfer

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-in/Windows7/transfer-files-and-settings-from-another-computer

  Get back to us and let us know the State of the question, I'll be happy to help you. We, at tender Microsoft to excellence.

• Having problems with Windows Easy Transfer

  I just bought a Dell laptop with W7 installed. It's all very well except the transfer of files/settings. I started the easy transfer and selected the option of wireless transfer. My old machine will connect to our router via a map of 54 Mbps and the new machine will connect to the router via a 24 GHz 802.11n built in the card. When all the files have been selected, they added up to 5.2 GB. I started the transfer, and it worked for 36 hours. For the last 6 hours, transfer screen said 1 minute left. Since the said warning do not use the computer that I don't know what to do. Is it possible to see if Easy Transfer is hung up? If it is blocked, how can it be restarted?

  Tahnks for your help!

  Wireless? Windows Easy Transfer is not something you do on a wireless connection. Use a wired connection, or create a .mig (Windows Easy Transfer file), save on an external hard drive or locally and transfer it to a new computer.

  install Windows 7 Windows Easy Transfer Utility from the DVD on the old computer (to find it, simply navigate to x:\support\migwiz, "x:" is the name of your hard drive. (In this case, you will see a collection of files, the important"that you must search for and double-click is 'migsetup'.) or download it at (windows.microsoft.com/windows-easy-transfer).  run it and create a WET (Windows Easy Transfer file), if you have an external hard drive, you can have it stored there.

  You should be able to easily restore these files if they were created using Windows Easy Transfer in Windows Vista. Simply click Start, type: easy Windows press enter on your keyboard
   
  Follow the wizard screen, select the type of support that you restore your files, select the computer that you restore, navigate to its location, select the file .mig Windows Easy Transfer and click on restore.

  The Windows Easy Transfer Wizard, then analyze the content of the files and ask you what you want to restore if multiple accounts have also been supported.

  Once you have confirmed that you want to restore, click transfer to begin the restore process, after it is complete, the wizard will propose programs, you need to reinstall, and a list of what it has been transferred, you will be asked to restart your system to apply permanently changes. Andre Da Costa http://adacosta.spaces.live.com http://www.activewin.com

• I used windows easy Transfer to transfer data to the new laptop, but the Favorites do not show up. How do I get my old favorites?

  I used Windows easy transfer to move the data from the old to the new laptop. Bookmarks of Firefox has not been transferred. How can I get my old favorites for the new machine? Thank you

  http://support.Mozilla.com/en-us/KB/recovering+important+data+from+an+old+profile

  Your old profile is located here in Windows Vista and Win7:
  
  drive: \Users\Windows login user name\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\profile_name