file transfer wisard

[Guest]

hi
right well i bought a second hard drive and wanted to transfer all the
settings and files to it. Rather than copy and paste them seen the transfer
wisard and used it.

It collected all the data and compressed it into 2 huge files and a status
file. These files have the extention
".dat"

The problem is it only transfered a tiny anount of the files and left the
rest compressed. The "my documents" files now reads empty and im denied
access. I cant access the ".dat" files either

Can anyone tell me how to recover these files?
Yours hopefully
Daire

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

hi
right well i bought a second hard drive and wanted to transfer all the
settings and files to it. Rather than copy and paste them seen the
transfer wisard and used it.

It collected all the data and compressed it into 2 huge files and a
status file. These files have the extention
".dat"

The problem is it only transfered a tiny anount of the files and left
the rest compressed. The "my documents" files now reads empty and im
denied access. I cant access the ".dat" files either

Can anyone tell me how to recover these files?
Yours hopefully
Daire

See the following article by MVP Gary Woodruff for a complete description
and troubleshooting guide for the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard.

File & Settings Transfer Wizard:
http://www.winsupportcenter.com/win5/a/fast.htm