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New laptop, trouble xferring files/settings from working Win7 laptop
I recently purchased an ASUS A555DG-EHFX to take over for my wife's Win7 ASUS K50IJ-BBZ5 (both are 64-bit).
Obviously getting Windows 10 up and running out of the box was a breeze. Configuring WLAN connectivity was also easy, even though I have a hidden SSID and access control on devices on the router. Even getting Office up and running was fine - just uninstalled from the old computer, downloaded an installer file from Microsoft, using the product key, and that was fine.
The one hiccup has been getting my files and configuration settings (such as browser history and passwords and cookies) from the old computer to the new.
I have read that one can run Windows Easy Transfer on a Win7 machine, which I did (to an external HD), then copy the migwiz and migration folders from the system32 subfolder of the Win7 machine, to somewhere on the new machine, and run the migwiz.exe program from the migwiz folder.
This appeared to "know what it was doing" - it identified the user profiles captured in the transfer data, and allowed me to select which ones to transfer.
But when the process completed, I can't find any of the files from the Win7 laptop, and I can't see any of the profiles and configurations - the files themselves, or evidence that the computer is accessing them.
Also, the old laptop had a C/D HD partition, as does this, and it was pretty much program files on C and data (.docx and .xlsx files, etc.) on the D partition.
After running migwiz, the new computer still has 0 usage of D.
Without buying or using new software, what's the easiest way to rectify this? I'll happily manually copy folders from the old Win7 to the new Win10, as long as I know where they're supposed to go. It would be great though if the "run migwiz.exe" advice worked as well for me as it has for many who've recommended the approach.