Windows 7: Easy Transfer Error Message

Hello -

I hope someone can help me. I recently installed Win 7, and I used easy transfer to move from 32 Bit Vista Home Premium to Win 7 64 Bit Home Premium. I did a custom install, but I did not format the partition. Everything worked great - iTunes, Outlook, and all of my pictures and movies came over.

I repeated this same process with the same transfer files on an identical machine and I am getting the following error:

'Windows Easy Transfer couldn't open the file' I'd believe this except that the same file worked 2 hours ago.

Has anyone seen this error? Anyone have any ideas to get all of my files out of this archive?

Thanks again for your support.

Hi Shoots, welcome to the forums
please take a look at this technet thread, maybe that applies to your problem?
let us know

If i were me, I would make another transfer (from the machine that you just transferred to) and then try to transfer that to the second machine.

I reviewed the links that were sent along, and unfortunately they did address a similar problem, but not not the one that I was having.

I reviewed the WET Debug file and it was pretty clear that my issue was a corrupt file (it said so in the file), for it was also stored on an older USB drive and it has been acting up lately.

Luckily, I use Mozy the online backup service, and I am now in the process of downloading 180g worth of my life and putting it on the new machine. Most likely, I will hold on to the WET archive files just in case that MS comes out with a archive extractor in the near future. With more folks moving to Windows 7, I expect we will see more of these types of problems.

Thanks again for your help!

I agree... just run migwiz on the new Windows 7 PC and copy those settings over to the next machine!