Oscar Kars

Thank you for your answer. You're right, I should have been more specific.

What happened, is that on three-quarter of the actual migration, on both
laptops, an icon flashed in the upper right corner. It was an icon that
looked the same as the "No network cable attached"-icon in Windows XP.

Unfortunately, un- and re-plugging the cables didn't have any effect. We
left them standing for an hour but no progress at all was made. We had to
terminate both sessions with the task manager.

Our network should be fast enough to be able to complete this task easily.
Also, as I said, the same problem occurred with a crosslink connection.

The profile that was copied, was a Vista profile. It was pretty large, but
not overly so. I could not find any problems on the disk. I deliberately did
not clean it up beforehand, because the owner of the profile wants to keep
his internet settings, cookies and temporary files. Also, we do not believe
that it should matter anyway.

Hope you have a more clear picture now.

"jimmuh" wrote:

> You say that "it seemed to have lost its network connection." I'm not sure
> what you mean by that. Perhaps, if you provide us with some detail concerning
> exactly what happened / what you saw someone will have a suggestion.
>
> I can tell you that I have tested both USMT (user state migration tool) and
> the Easy Transfer wizard and found that both of them recovered and proceeded
> without issue when network connections were interrupted deliberately. It
> worked well enough, and our network is fast enough, that we decided to forego
> using the special data transfer kit/cable the Microsoft recommends.
>
> As an alternative I guess you might also just use USMT to produce a data
> store, write the data store to optical disc(s), and accomplish the transfer
> that way.
>
> "Oscar Kars" wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > We were experimenting with two laptops with Windows Vista Business, to move
> > an userprofile from one to another. We used Windows Easy Transfer, but to our
> > disappointment, at almost three-quarters of the way, it seemed to have lost
> > its network connection. This was with both laptops connected to our network.
> > We took a crosslink cable and tried again, but with the same result.
> >
> > Now, we're not really looking for a way to transfer the user profile
> > (because there are other ways), but we'd jsut like to know why it won't work.
> > Have more people had experiences like this?