Mainframeguy
Debiant by way of Ubuntu
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I just wanted to ask if anyone has ever successfully used this?
Having just built my AMD64 rig and having a Maxtor external USB/Firewire drive (plus network router) I thought this would be a handy option - but I have yet to make it work for me. Typically it says it has made the file from the old machine - then I go to the new and browse to it on the external device and it tells me it is not a valid transfer directory/file. I think something is going wrong with the writing part because it was popping up yellow triangles saying Windows had a pending write it could not finish.... Yet I had used the "safely dismount" feature for the drive and anyway the Wizard said it had finished
Maybe I need to try a network option? Just thought I would ask around here first... If I ever resolve it I will post back too....
Having just built my AMD64 rig and having a Maxtor external USB/Firewire drive (plus network router) I thought this would be a handy option - but I have yet to make it work for me. Typically it says it has made the file from the old machine - then I go to the new and browse to it on the external device and it tells me it is not a valid transfer directory/file. I think something is going wrong with the writing part because it was popping up yellow triangles saying Windows had a pending write it could not finish.... Yet I had used the "safely dismount" feature for the drive and anyway the Wizard said it had finished
Maybe I need to try a network option? Just thought I would ask around here first... If I ever resolve it I will post back too....