Easy Transfer under Win7 unable to find file

Symptoms

When you use Windows Easy Transfer to restore data from a trans-partition migration store in Windows 7, you receive the following error message:

When Windows Easy Transfer cannot open the file.

Reason

This problem occurs when a spanned volume's migration storage file is not in the same location or the migration store for the spanned volume is corrupted.

Solution

Method One: Verify the location of the migrated storage files

1, click the Start button, and then click "Computer" to open the Explorer

2, in the upper right corner, type *.mig in the search box, and press ENTER.

3. Please note the location of all files with *.mig extensions such as *.mig, *.MIG01, etc.

4, make sure that all files with the *.mig extension are in the same folder. If they are not in the same folder, follow these steps:

1 Select a folder in the migration store.

2 Select all *.mig files listed in the Search Results window, and do not select the Migration folder in step 4 A.

3 Click Copy on the Edit menu.

4 Open the folder, you choose to click Paste in step 4a and on the Edit menu.

Please try running Windows Easy Transfer again.

If method one does not solve the problem, try method two.

Method Two: Copy the migrated storage files to another location

1. Right-click the blank area on the desktop, point to New, and then click Folder.

2, migrate Temp, this folder is named, and then press Enter.

3, click the Start button, and then click Computer, open Explorer click.

4. In the upper-right corner, type *.mig in the Search Computer box, and then press ENTER.

5. Please note the location of all files with *.mig extensions such as *.mig, *.MIG01, etc.

6, select the *.mig extension and all files listed in the Search Results window.

7, click Copy on the Edit menu.

8, open the Migrate Temp folder, and then click Paste on the Edit menu.

9. Run Windows Easy Transfer and point to the location of the Migration Temp folder when you transfer files and settings to your computer.

If method two does not solve the problem, try method three.

Method Three: Check hard drive errors

Use the Chkdsk tool to check for disk problems. To do this, follow these steps:

1, click the Start button, and then click "Computer" to open the Explorer

2. Right-click the drive that contains the migrated file, and then click Properties.

3, click on the Tools tab to check immediately in the error-checking area.

4, click to select the Automatically fix file system errors check box, and then click to select the scan and try to recover bad sectors check box.

5, click Start.

6. If you receive the following message, click Schedule Disk Check, and then restart the computer:

Windows cannot check the disk, it is in use. Do you want to schedule disk checking the next time you restart your computer?

Note: It may take several minutes for the disk to be checked against your hard disk. For best results, do not use the computer to perform any other tasks during the disk check process.