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Files and settings transfer wizard freeze

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A customer purchased a new PC, and wanted to copy her information from her old PC to the new PC.

This was time for the trusted windows xp “Files and settings transfer wizard”.

I started it, but soon realised it wanted to copy 2.5 Gb of data (and I only had a 256Mb memory stick…)… and it looked like it was going to take hours to create the transfer file.

It didn’t take long to find that most of the data was music files. So I move the music files to a different “holding” area, then run FASTW again… this time it generates a 400Mb file… still too big for my usb drive, but OK for a CDROM

So I burn the CDROM, copy the file to the new PC, run FASTW to restore the settings, and then wait. And wait. And wait…

After 45 minutes (and no visible disk activity after the first 20 minutes), I decide to restart the PC. The restart works well, and all the settings were transferred across.

I try to copy the music files, but for some reason, cannot burn a dvd, so I work on the old PC from my workshop… I manage to copy the music to a DVD, then load the music to the new PC a few days later.

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Files and settings transfer wizard freeze — 4 Comments

  1. Howdy there, fellow computer tech!

    I’ve found that the best way to transfer a client’s files is to use an external USB drive, in my case I have a 40gb laptop HDD in an external enclosure, it’s usually enough to copy the entire hard drive, just in case. I’ve never really had much luck with the files and settings transfer wizard.

    P.S. this is my first post on your site, I happened to notice we service overlapping territory – that makes us enemies, right? 😛

    Regards,
    David

  2. I’ve not needed to use FASTW much, but when I do use it, its been very useful.

    Enemies?

    I prefer to say “competitors”, but we could cooperate in some ways (you have skills I don’t have and ViceVersa).

    Let me know if you’re interested.

    (Oh, you have a nice blog) 🙂

  3. Hi,

    Thanks! I’ve spent ages trying to get it up and running, but I must admit I didn’t make that theme, but I _did_ modify it a bit.

    I’m interested in working together, there’s no reason why we can’t – sometimes I get so busy that I have to turn work down, so I could hand that to you, and vice versa.

    Regards,
    David

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