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To: Cogito who wrote (54853)	7/21/2006 1:14:12 AM
From: Dave Budde	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213172

Does Vista offer anything like the excellent User Migration Tool that Apple has? If you've gotten a new Windows machine, can you boot your old one into target disk mode, have all your files and applications automatically copied over to your new machine, and be up and running inside of an hour with all your apps, settings and files intact? Yes, there is some data migration facility. I don't know how it works. Don't know if it can use Firewire or not. I didn't try it since I don't have some other windows machine that I needed to get data off of. I suspect it works fine. But i can't comment on that. I didn't try anything at all with Firewire ports. Vista found and installed drivers for all my hardware except the firewire port and the camera. The mousepad doesn't support the two fingered stuff of course. It found my bluetooth mouse though and configured it which surprised me. I needed to manually install the wired ethernet driver since it required an older driver than what Vista installed. After that was there, though it found drivers for the wireless device and configured the network all automatically.