I noticed USMT as a selection in AP and was wondering if the tool is needed by a normal user who wants to save his files/settings for a new build. XP already has a Files and Settings Transfer Wizard which looks like it does pretty much the same as USMT. Is this tool more for a large deployment?
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Ms User State Migration Tool (3.01)
Started by click-click, Nov 18 2009 02:34 PM
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Posted 18 November 2009 - 02:34 PM
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Posted 18 November 2009 - 06:00 PM
As I remember, and I could well be wrong here, you have to have both OSs for Files & Settings Transfer Wizard. Let me explain;
Files & Settings will copy over you files and settings from 1 PC to another, ie. from XP to Vista. It won't/can't work if you are installing Vista on the same PC. This is where USMT comes in. It can copy to an external drive & from there into Vista.
In principle USMT is intended for larger deployments, but it's perfectly suitable for a single PC.
Files & Settings will copy over you files and settings from 1 PC to another, ie. from XP to Vista. It won't/can't work if you are installing Vista on the same PC. This is where USMT comes in. It can copy to an external drive & from there into Vista.
In principle USMT is intended for larger deployments, but it's perfectly suitable for a single PC.
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