HT4796 how long does migration  process take .?  My migration  box says 8  hours in the box. Is this normal?

I am trying to use migration from my PC to my Mac PRo retina and the box says it will take 8 hours.  Is this normal?

alstemp wrote:
Hi Csound1 - I just purchased a MacBook Pro on Saturday (I'm in London UK.)  Yesterday I tried to do the data migration from my old Windows laptop to new mac book pro - wirelessly using Windows Migration Assistant.  It started off around 28 hours until completion and this morning this has only gone down to 24 hours. It is taking far too long.  Today I sourced Ethernet cable and want to go this route as it seems quicker.  Please can you advise (I am no way a techie so will need plain English and step by step response please ) :
i) if I stop the wireless data transfer process will it "save" the data that has been transferred over so far? If so, when I set up a transfer on the Ethernet, will my Mac automatically know what has been saved so far and just pick up data transfer from the point I cancelled it when doing it wirelessly?
ii) or do I need to delete any data that has been stored so far on the Mac and start again?  if I start again, how do I delete this data transferred so far?  can you give me step by step to do this please
iii) setting up an Ethernet cable transfer. How do I do this?  Do I just connect my Windows laptop to my macbook pro with the grey Ethernet cable?  or do I need to connect each machine to  my Wifi box?  I have heard conflicting advice on this so need to know definitively what I must do here.  Do I need one Ethernet cable or 2?  Again, step by step instructions would be great.
thanks in advance for your help
best regards Annabelp
Stop the transfer, delete all that was transferred and start again. Connect the 2 machines together using ethernet.

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