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Windows Vista Easy Transfer

cjbrx3115
Hey everyone,

I just bought a new Windows Vista (Home Premium) computer. My old computer, a Windows XP Professional, had all of my old documents, spreadsheets, etc. I was planing on using the Easy Transfer on my new machine, and using an Ethernet cable to transfer the files. When I launched the Windows Vista Easy Transfer, I went through the process and followed all the directions. But when I had to run the program on my old computer, when I got to the part where the program scans your computer to check the files to be transfered, I get an error message saying "There was an error scanning the data on your system. Windows Easy Transfer will now close."

If anyone has any suggestions it would be greatly appreciated!
Mar 25 '07 #1
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Banfa
9,065 Expert Mod 8TB
If you have an ethernet running between the 2 computers just share the drive of one of them (the XP 1) and map a drive on the other one and copy the files you want to have on the new computer.
Mar 25 '07 #2
If you have an ethernet running between the 2 computers just share the drive of one of them (the XP 1) and map a drive on the other one and copy the files you want to have on the new computer.
Yeah, except I want my user accout, Outlook, etc. settings to go with it, so thats why I need to use WVET.
Mar 26 '07 #3
Cyberdyne
627 Expert 512MB
If you transfer the entire drive the only things you will need for your user account are: My Documents, Favorites, E-mails, Desctop Items. All of those can be found in your old computer under C:\Documents and Settings\yourusername

For the e-mail I suggest starting up the old computer and exporting to a file and then importing that same file in outlook in the new vista machine.

Again, the share and copy drive is the way to go for you.

Regards, Cyberdyne.

Yeah, except I want my user accout, Outlook, etc. settings to go with it, so thats why I need to use WVET.
Mar 26 '07 #4
If you transfer the entire drive the only things you will need for your user account are: My Documents, Favorites, E-mails, Desctop Items. All of those can be found in your old computer under C:\Documents and Settings\yourusername

For the e-mail I suggest starting up the old computer and exporting to a file and then importing that same file in outlook in the new vista machine.

Again, the share and copy drive is the way to go for you.

Regards, Cyberdyne.
Ok, I'll try that.
Mar 27 '07 #5
ds1111
1
I had the 'scanning error' problem and, looking at the diagerr.xml in the MigWiz directory, discovered an exception handling problem with a filetype identified as .avi"

Looking through the registry, I discovered a number of (mainly multimedia) filetypes with an additional "

Deleting all these eliminated the scanning error problem. Whether any other problems will emerge with Anything But Easy Transfer remains to be seen...
Aug 7 '07 #6
Mr P
1
I had exactly this problem and after viewing the diagerr file I saw that it was a Nero file that was causing the problem. I couldn't find the file itself so I uninstalled Nero and the transfer worked just fine after that.
Sep 6 '08 #7

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