Windows Easy Transfer 7 Attempting to Reconnect

Using Windows 7 Easy transfer on a new pc (Win7 Pro x64) to try and get files and settings off of an older Laptop (XP Pro x32).

Using the Network method (10/100 wired).

After choosing files/settings to transfer (defaults in my case), choosing the destination user account, and destination drive for the files (default for C: drive (no choices for OS drive (C:))), and a blank formatted partition (target O:) for the secondary laptop source drive D: from the drop-down menu (advanced options), and entering the transfer code, starting the transfer, the transfer began. Unfortunately, the laptop is old and frail, and keeps heating up and crashing during the transfer process. Seemingly (as far as I've been able to tell from looking, and searching google) Windows Easy Transfer for windows 7 is missing the resume function as described in Windows Easy Transfer for Vista documentation (as shown in the 4th picture here, unless its missing due to using the network method? I don't have an easy transfer cable to try to see if it makes this option available, nor did I have time to try an external hard-drive destination for the transfer to see if it shows up then.

So... I'm stuck either doing a manual transfer of the data piece by piece (or rsync using a live linux disc or something), or attempting a full image dump using something like acronis (assuming it doesn't crash, or I'll have to pull the drive and do it with the laptop drive plugged into another machine).

Sucks... why did microsoft either remove the Resume option of Windows Easy Transfer, or limit it to only easy transfer cable transfers or hard-drive transfers (if such is the case... maybe someone can tell me if the resume is there for them in these 2 (transfer cable and external hard-drive) transfer modes with Windows Easy Transfer for Windows 7).

edit: what I ended up doing, (so far, middle of transfer so far) is setting the laptop up so it is getting even more airflow, have it beside an open window (and its -5 C outside), and a fan blowing on the laptop directly.

realistically, I don't normally use the Windows Easy Transfer, but the client wanted his new desktop PC to be as similar to his old laptop as possible (a common request these days).

flashplugin-nonfree: Package is in a very bad inconsistent state

I had some issues upgrading/removing flashplugin-nonfree on an ubuntu 8.04 desktop system, it came to be in a state where dpkg/apt/aptitude would say:

Package is in a very bad inconsistent state

and something about trying to reinstall it before removing it. However, it was an endless loop, and I tried several iterations of remove, reinstall, force remove, etc, but finally ran across the post I've linked to, and did the following to fix/remove it (I didn't try re-installing it, as I didn't need it):

sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/info/flashplugin-nonfree.prerm
sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq flashplugin-nonfree
sudo dpkg --purge --force-remove-reinstreq flashplugin-nonfree

This finally fixed it, and made it so aptitude/apt/dpkg wouldn't complain while installing/upgrading other packages now, and only needed to run once, not multiple times like it did during some updates because of the above error.

Linux Crashes, JFS doesn't FSCK on reboot, requires manual fsck

I had been having some issues with a machine getting hard-shutdown on semi-regular occasion when its UPS battery backup was failing, and we had some brown-outs. Every time the server would boot back up after power was restore, it wouldn't automatically fsck one of the tertiary JFS file systems, and I would have to login manually to do it after each power up if it was shutdown improperly.

I had googled before, and read the fstab docs, but none of the changes I had tried were working. I decided to give it another go tonight, and found the article I've linked this post to, at it was as simple as changing my fstab as follows:

OLD:

/dev/sdc1 /drive3 auto defaults,rw,noatime 0 0

NEW:

/dev/sdc1 /drive3 auto defaults,rw,noatime 0 2

And that fixed it so it would run FSCK automatically during bootup if the system wasn't shutdown nicely, even on the tertiary partition.

http://www.techspot.com/guides/253-take-ownership-windows-files/

Take Ownership of Windows 7 and Vista Files with a Shortcut

Handy information for Windows 7 Users facing "take ownership" issues on files and directories.