Ah I am starting with a XP as the source though. Is that still the case? Jon
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Terry Dickson <[email protected]>wrote: > On the new windows 7 machine click on the start button and type in > migwiz, it will give you what you want. You will be able to copy the > software to the usb drive or network drive, it has good instructions > included. > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Jon Harris [[email protected]] > *Sent:* Friday, December 18, 2009 8:01 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* User Migration tool > > I am heading out to do a quick user migration and would like a bit of > an assist. There is a tool built into XP for migrating a user from XP to > another machine will it work with the same tool in Windows 7? Normally we > blow away user profiles and create new but this is a special case and I > really hate the idea of being forced to do that if this tool will work as > advertised. Hardware for old machine is being retired, new machine is > waiting, and there is a 1 TB USB drive sitting next to the machines waiting > for data. I have seen this done with XP to Vista but I have not done it > myself. I am pulling the Windows 7 AIK tool now if that would work better. > I will have to pull about 160 GB of data mostly pic's and various audio > files from one machine to another. > > I know there is IPod files there as well so am I looking at a nightmare > with this migration? > > Thanks for any insight here, > > Jon > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
