Disk to Disk migration using USMT

[srinu9]

Hi..

 

Can USMT migrate the data to a Windows 7 PC from a Windows XP Hard disk connected as secondary hard disk to Windows 7??

 

Our strategy for Windows migration is to replace the Hard disk of XP PC's with a Pre-Imaged Win7 Hard disk and we are planning to use USMT for migrating the data. in this case, we are trying to find out if USMT can directly migrate the data from the XP hard disk connected as secondary hard disk to the Win7 machines.

 

I feel that might be possible but couldn't find a working method. Can some one get me in the right direction if what i am trying to achive is possible??

 

Thanks in advance...

[Peter van der Woude]

I think you've got a big challenge there... You might be able to copy data during the loadstate to the new disk, but I have no idea how you want to copy it in to the profile then....

[srinu9]

Thanks for the reply Peter.

 

Yeah.. I too feel that's a tricky one. One thing which is currently running in my mind is, is it possible to run loadstate restore from from raw untouched files without running scanstate to create a store. If the answer is Yes, I can still bang my head around to get my work done. If No, I can give up on USMT for getting our strategy to work. Any ideas??

[Peter van der Woude]

You can only run loadstate with store created by a scanstate action.