I used it almost 1.5 years ago and that's way too long to really trust my memory, but I started out using the easy transfer utility to move things to an EHD, and from there I was going to transfer them to the other computer. It took forever--after 13+ hours of copying from the old computer to the EHD, it finally gave me an error message and I was going to have to start all over again. At that point I broke down and bought the Windows Easy Transfer cable. I remember that being much faster and it worked the first time. I can't remember exactly what "faster" was--it probably could have been anything from 1 to 5 hours.