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I've just plugged a USB hd into a XP Home ed. system box, ( detected as

drive E:\ ), and after choosing, in as many of the wizards' "Next / radio

button" screens, I've selected that this is the "old" computer that I want

to transfer files and settings from," and pointed the wizard to output to a

folder called E:\briansfsw\ ,...and the wizard starts off, and then spends

and inordinate amount of time examining a massive directory structure that I

have on that external USB hd !!! ...should it be doing that ?

 

i.e. I don't want gigabytes of stuff from my ext. hd, added to the

"Transfer My Files & Settings Wizard," archive, from the source machine, if

you see what I mean !

 

TIA, regards, Richard

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Re: XP Transfer My Files & Settings Wizard Q.

 

 

"RJK" <notatospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message

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> I've just plugged a USB hd into a XP Home ed. system box, ( detected as

> drive E:\ ), and after choosing, in as many of the wizards' "Next / radio

> button" screens, I've selected that this is the "old" computer that I want

> to transfer files and settings from," and pointed the wizard to output to

> a folder called E:\briansfsw\ ,...and the wizard starts off, and then

> spends and inordinate amount of time examining a massive directory

> structure that I have on that external USB hd !!! ...should it be doing

> that ?

>

> i.e. I don't want gigabytes of stuff from my ext. hd, added to the

> "Transfer My Files & Settings Wizard," archive, from the source machine,

> if you see what I mean !

You want to use the "Let me select a custom list of files and settings"

option, then under "File Types" delete all the file types or at least the

most common ones which are found on your system.

 

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Allan

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Re: XP Transfer My Files & Settings Wizard Q.

 

"Allan" <mu8ja0i@earthlink.net> wrote in message

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> "RJK" <notatospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message

> news:OWUtrp1FJHA.3848@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

>> I've just plugged a USB hd into a XP Home ed. system box, ( detected as

>> drive E:\ ), and after choosing, in as many of the wizards' "Next /

>> radio button" screens, I've selected that this is the "old" computer that

>> I want to transfer files and settings from," and pointed the wizard to

>> output to a folder called E:\briansfsw\ ,...and the wizard starts off,

>> and then spends and inordinate amount of time examining a massive

>> directory structure that I have on that external USB hd !!! ...should

>> it be doing that ?

>>

>> i.e. I don't want gigabytes of stuff from my ext. hd, added to the

>> "Transfer My Files & Settings Wizard," archive, from the source machine,

>> if you see what I mean !

> You want to use the "Let me select a custom list of files and settings"

> option, then under "File Types" delete all the file types or at least the

> most common ones which are found on your system.

>

> --

> Allan

 

Thanks for your response - I had spotted that option whilst digging around.

 

In the end I solved it by, disconnecting external USB hd, ran the "Transfer

my files and settings Wizard" output to a directory on the source machine,

and then switched on ext. USB hd, and copied it from source boot-drive to

USB hd myself !

 

regards, Richard


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