HT4796 the migration assistant keeps getting interrupted

Hi I'm a brand new Mac userer and I am trying to transfer my data  from the pc to my mac using the migration assistant however everytime I run the intallation it gets interrupted. I don't know what is interrrupting it. I've turned off all windows automatic stuff. Any suggestions thanks

Are you using wifi to migrate?

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    chuckbo wrote:
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