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Vista Easy Transfer

  • 10-10-2009 8:25am
    #1
    Santa Claus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭


    Got a new laptop and as both are same manufacturer and vista home premium I was advised to use Easy Transfer rather than just backing up the HD and dumping it across.

    However as with many MS apps, there seems to be a problem.
    The easy transfer created a .MIG file of 37GB but even though I have an external HD with 200GB odd free space on it it refuses to copy as it says the "file is too large".
    I was at the point of going out and getting a cross-over cable when I though if I used a file splitter it might get around it.

    So I split the file into 5 chunks of 8GB each but it won't let me paste the .MIG.001, .002 etc files saying there's not enough space.
    Even if i try to move them to the external HD one at a time it still says that yet I can copy of 12GB folder to the external HD without any problem.

    Anyone encountered any problems with the so called "easy" transfer before and know how to fix it or failing that where I can pick up a crossover cable or a "windows easy transfer cable" in Dublin city centre ?

    Cheers


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  • #2
    Kensington
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,683 ✭✭✭Kensington


    Is the external drive formatted in FAT? If so, FAT has a file limit of ~4GB so you would need to split each file into 4GB chunks. You could alternatively reformat the external drive in NTFS which will let you copy the MIG file in one go (reformatting will wipe anthing currently on the drive though).


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