XP Transfer Wizard Question

[Horsepower]

I am helping a friend upgrade 4 workstations at his office. The first one went fine, but it was an XP Pro to XP Pro transfer. I wasn't so lucky with the second. It's a Windows 98 to XP Pro transfer. I first tried making a transfer floppy. It was created fine by the XP machine, but gave a fatal exception error on the Win98. Then I tried using the XP Pro CD and it went through the drill fine, but said it needed 1400 floppies. Next try I used my Maxtor USB removeable hard drive, but 98 couldn't see NTFS. I formatted my removeable drive to FAT32, created the transfer file, but the XP machine couldn't see it. I then bought a DCC cable, and tried that way. Everything ran fine, the com ports were recognized, but when it started "transferring files" it just sat for 30 minutes with no progress. I checked the com ports, and one was set different, so I matched them up, tried again with the same result. I'd like to get this one solved, because the other 2 are also Win 98. Suggestions appreciated. Thank you.

 

[loup garou]

Will it work if you just point F&STW to the 98 computer's desktop as the location for the compressed files? Try that first, then you can work on a way to get the compressed files over to the new machine. Also, no network?

 

[Horsepower]

Thanks. I don't get the network selection at all, but the knowledge base says they need to be in the same workgroup. I may get a crossover cable and try that.

 

[Horsepower]

Did computer 3 yesterday. I just selected the network share drive for the transfer file and it worked flawlessly.

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: Horsepower
Did computer 3 yesterday. I just selected the network share drive for the transfer file and it worked flawlessly.

:thumbsup:

Another tip:
Clear the source comp's temporary internet files before transfer...it'll save you a TON of time. Actually, doing a full disk cleanup is recommended. All those temp files get transferred, and compressing/decompressing them takes forever.