In the next screen, I am told that it is time to install the Easy Transfer Cable and connect my computers. Not quite yet, though, because I have to do some upgrading on the old machine. Following the instructions, I take the driver CD that came with the cable and install the drivers on my old computer. I restart the system just to be sure that everything is copacetic. This dialog assures me that when I connect the cable to both the old and new computers it will be automatically detected and the migration will begin.
I plug it in and nothing changes. No inventory of the old machine appears, the application just hangs. I have checked every firewall and connection to ensure access is correctly set. I have tried this Easy Cable five times, at least, and left it to for an hour to see if anything happened. Nothing. This is a bad migration experience. As I said in the accompanying article, Lenovo's System Migration Assistant worked the first time and moved the same settings Windows Easy Transfer promised to.
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