In my attempt, I ran the wiz and burned the results to a CD-RW. I then wiped the drive, installed the OS and directed the wiz to the optical drive. Having a separate full manual backup (no compression or spanned disks to worry about) is the only thing that saved me. Did I mention it was not my computer? lol Peace, Gman "The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don101" <don101@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2008 12:33 AM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Files and settings transfer wizard > Great! I thought a wizard was supposed to lead you step by step > through a process. The least it could have done is to prompt you to > see that article if you are migrating to a new install rather than a > new computer. > > For a person that does not want to dual boot, this wizard would > require installing a dual boot, run the wizard from the new install. > Run the wizard on the old install. Run the wizard on the new install. > Delete the old install. And if the new install was in a location that > was not desirable, say a second hard drive that was only temp > installed to run the wizard or a new partition that is not wanted, > then it would be necessary to do another install to the desired > location, run the wizard on the new new install, run the wizard on the > old new install, run the wizard on the new new install. Then remove > the temp installed hard drive or delete the unwanted partition. What > a crock!! In less time than it takes to do all that, a reasonably > incompetent oaf could just manually configure the settings and restore > files from a backup. > > Over a billion lines of code just to make more work for the end user. > And people wonder why I hate Micro$oft. > > Don --------------------------------------------------------------- Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. To unsubscribe or change your email settings: http://www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ http://www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ To contact only the PCTT Mod Squad, write to: pctechtalk-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------