Cannot get migration assistant to work on my mac pro

I cannot get migration to work from my sony vaio to my mac pro, the pc shows up on my mac, but it keeps saying it looking for other sources, what gives ?

Have you looked at these directions?
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT4796
Ciao.

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