Problem: When I run the USMT scanstate.exe executable on my shiny new Windows XP SP3 Lab machine, I get the following error
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| Scanstate.exe is not a valid Win32 application. |
The procedure I used to get this copy of the USMT is to download the
Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (Windows ADK) for Windows 8.1
from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39982 run it, and select only the USMT components. This creates two folders inside
C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\Assessment and Deployment Kit\User State Migration Tool one is for x86, one is for x64.
My Xp machine is x86 (32-bit), and it doesn't work.
The solution is to remove the Windows 8.1 ADK and pull down the Windows 8 ADK from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=30652. It installs exactly the same way as the 8.0 one, but these binaries work.
You'll find the functioning files in
C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.0\Assessment and Deployment Kit\User State Migration Tool\x86
I asked about this and was told that the Win8.1 ADK does not support XP. That explains it.
Let's file that under "Information that would have been relevant yesterday."
5 comments:
This is great! Thank you so much!
I was wondering why my scanstate was not working.
Glad to help, Paul. I really think this should be in big letters on the documentation of this tool, but it's not. :/ Best of luck.
Dude you rock! Thanks i was having the same issue!
Really strange, i'm under this issue since 4 hours, and finally, it sounds that the only solution is to Replace ADK 8.1 by ADK 8. Obvious since Microsoft report that USMT 5.0 is supported on Windows XP (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh824913.aspx)
Thanks
@Samir FARHAT -- Yes, that's right. The USMT tools from the Windows 8 ADK are required to savestate data from Windows XP.
Glad to help!
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