urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:dyork Blog.DanYork.com Personal journal of Dan York - for my VoIP blog, see www.disruptivetelephony.com Dan York 2038-01-19T03:14:07Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:dyork:279499 Fun with the Parallels Transporter... and my inability to copy over a Windows XP system 2038-01-19T03:14:07Z 2038-01-19T03:14:07Z Having just purchased an Apple MacBook Pro, one of the initial things I wanted to do was install <a href="http://www.parallels.com/">Parallels</a> so that I can run Windows on top of the MacBook Pro.&nbsp; Given that the laptop is to <i>replace</i> one of my Windows XP machines, it seemed like running <a href="http://www.parallels.com/en/products/desktop/features/transporter/">Parallels Transporter</a> would be a great thing to do.&nbsp; Copy the Windows XP system over to the MacBook Pro, make sure it was all happy... and then consign the old system to the recycling process. <br /><br />However, it didn't work out that great so far.&nbsp; Everything seemed to work out at first.&nbsp; I installed the Parallels Transporter Agent on the XP system.&nbsp; I installed (after purchasing) Parallels on my MacBook Pro.&nbsp; Then came problem #1 - Transporter on the Mac couldn't find the Transporter Agent running on the network, so the XP PC wasn't listed in the choice of systems I had to choose from.&nbsp; I tried providing the IP address of the XP system and that still had no luck.&nbsp; Thankfully, I'm a network geek with plenty of different kinds of cables around, so I simply put a crossover cable between the two of them, manually configured their IP addresses and... ta da... Transporter could see the Transporter Agent!&nbsp; All looked good.<br /><br />The migration began but then when the blue progress bar had moved maybe 1/4 of the way across the screen, it stopped suddenly with this error:<blockquote><em>During disk(s) migrating an error has occurred.</em></blockquote>Nice!&nbsp; Wonderfully descriptive!&nbsp; I retried with the same effect.&nbsp; I then set to work on the XP system... I did "Disk Cleanup", then I defragged... then I defragged again.&nbsp; Still the same problem. Judging by <a href="http://forum.parallels.com/thread10832.html">this thread on the Parallels forums</a>, it seems like it might be some issue with a single file somewhere on the disk.&nbsp; Now, the curious thing is that when I do the Disk Defrag, it tells me that a file was unable to be defragmented, <i>but doesn't say what the file is!</i>&nbsp; The box where this is to be indicated is empty!&nbsp; So perhaps this is the issue... or perhaps not.<br /><br />Anyone out there have a similar problem with Parallels Transporter?&nbsp; If so, did you ever get it to work?&nbsp; (And what did you do?) Thanks!