-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Files and settings transfer wizard

oh heck i didn't see this until after I'd moved a lot of stuff (almost all 
in fact) to my new pc, but I don't even have a floppy drive in the new pc.

I just did the drag/drop thing from my old hddrives to my new pc, which does 
take some time, but seems a lot easier to me, or maybe I'm really missing 
something?? lol

Sandy in Fla
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gman" <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2008 12:09 AM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Files and settings transfer wizard


> Don,
>    Here is the official steps for using the transfer wiz.  Is this the
> approach you took or can you see anything you may have missed?
>
> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457074.aspx
> OR
> http://tinyurl.com/2jc6eh
>
> Peace,
> Gman
>
> "The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask"
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <dsw32952@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 10:18 PM
> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Files and settings transfer wizard
>
>
>>I ran the transfer wizard on my laptop and stored the resulting DAT file 
>>on
>>a thumbdrive.  File name is USMT2IMG.DAT
>> I then formatted the drive and reinstalled Win XP MCE.
>>
>> When I run the wizard to transfer the settings to the new install, I tell
>> it this is the new computer and click next.
>>
>> The next dialog box offers 4 options:
>>
>> 1.  I want to create a Wizard disk
>> 2.  I already have a wizard disk
>> 3.  I will use the wizard from the Win XP CD
>> 4.  I don't need the wizard.  I have already collected my files and
>> settings from the old computer.
>>
>> Option one seems obviously not the correct option to choose.
>> Option two prompts me to follow steps to collect files and settings.  I
>> already have them so this seems like the wrong option also.
>> Option 3 prompts me to insert the XP CD in the old computer and follow
>> steps to again collect the files and settings.    I already have them so
>> this seems like the wrong option also.
>>
>> Option 4 asks where the files and settings are and I direct it to "Other
>> (for example a removable drive or network drive)" and tell it drive F:
>>
>> When I click next it prompts me to insert disk one.  The thumb drive is
>> already plugged in so I click OK and get an error message saying the disk
>> I inserted is not the correct one.
>>
>> When I first started this process on the "old computer" there was nothing
>> said or instructed regarding a "Wizard Disk".  I simply told it it was 
>> the
>> old computer, I directed it to the thumb drive and it did its thing.
>>
>> Now that I have finished the reformatting and reinstalling of XP MCE I
>> don't know of any way to go back and redo the process.
>>
>> I have tried moving the DAT file to a safe location, running the wizard 
>> to
>> creat a wizard disk and collect the files and settings (from the new
>> computer of course since the "old" one had been formatted and installed
>> over) and then replace the newly created DAT file with the original DAT
>> file.  Still no workee.
>>
>> This is not a super critical problem.  I can do all the setting over 
>> again
>> and copy any files over.  I can also go to my desktop computer (which has
>> an identical setup for OE that I want on the laptop) and run an OE backup
>> program and then restore to the "new" computer.  This will save me the
>> worst of the work I had hoped the transfer wizard would save me.
>>
>> Two questions:
>>
>> 1.  How do I salvage this operation?
>>
>> 2.  Why didn't Windows prompt me about making a wizard disk and starting
>> with new computer instead of the old (which seems counter intuitive to
>> me)?  Calling the movers and loading up the furniture to move to the new
>> computer seems more logical than going to the new location, call the call
>> the movers, build a truck and then go back to the old location and load 
>> up
>> and then return to the new location.
>>
>> Don
>
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