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Planning for the Installation of Windows 7

While the previous exercise had you create a batch ﬁle with the ScanState and

LoadState commands, it is possible just to execute the commands at the command prompt.

However, if you have created the batch ﬁle, you can create your own portable tool that can

be easily executed on any system to perform an in-place migration.

Creating a Portable USMT Batch File

If desired, you can make your batch ﬁle a little more portable. Instead of installing the

Windows AIK for Windows 7 on every computer that you are migrating, you can copy the

appropriate ﬁles to a USB ﬂash drive or CD. These ﬁles consume only about 50 MB.

You can then bring your USB ﬂash drive or CD to any computer that has had an in-place

migration, run the batch ﬁle, and the migration will be done in minutes.

For more on this process, check out the TechNet article “Building a USB

Drive to Store USMT 4.0 Files and Simple Commands.” You can read it

here:

http://technet.microsoft.com/library/dd940094.aspx.

You’ll still need to install the Windows AIK onto a Windows 7 computer. Once it’s

installed on any Windows 7 computer, you can use Windows Explorer to copy the

USMT

folder onto the portable media such as a USB ﬂash drive.

Browse to the

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C:\Program Files\Windows AIK\Tools\USMT folder.

Right-click the

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USMT folder and select Copy.

Insert a USB flash drive.

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Browse to the USB flash drive using Windows Explorer, right-click, and select Paste.

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At this point, you’ll have the entire contents of the USMT folder on the ﬂash drive. This

includes the

USMT folder used for 64-bit systems (\USMT\amd64\) and the folder used for

32-bit systems (

\USMT\x86).

Now you’ll need to create a batch ﬁle that can be used on any system. The batch ﬁle

used in the previous exercise can be used as a starting point, but it will need to be slightly

modiﬁed.

The USMT ﬁles need to be copied to the C: drive on the system that is being migrated,

so the ﬁrst step in the batch ﬁle is to copy these ﬁles. This sounds simple enough, but

it’s impossible to tell what the letter of the USB drive will be when it’s plugged in on any

given system. That is, when you plug the USB into Sally’s computer, the USB disk may be

assigned the letter E:, but when you plug it into Joe’s computer, it might be assigned the

letter F:.

You can use the following

If exist statement in the batch ﬁle to check to see if the

USB ﬂash drive is assigned the letter D:. It checks for the

USMT folder at the root of D:. If it

exists, it assumes this is the USB ﬂash drive and copies the

USMT folder from the ﬂash drive

to the Windows folder on the C: drive.

If exist D:\USMT\*.* XCopy /e /v /y C:\Windows\USMT\

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