MacBook Air Migration Assistant problem

I'm trying to transfer a user account from a 2012 MBA to a 2013 one. The amount of data is around 256GB, so it has been getting stuck trying to migrate via wi-fi.
I am now trying to boot on the 2013 MBA with an external USB drive that I have cloned the 2012 boot drive to using SuperDuper. This external drive boots fine on the 2012 MBA, but will not boot on the 2013. I get the option to boot it when holding the Option key down on startup, but selecting it just shows the grey screen with a no entry symbol instead of the Apple logo. Then it shuts down.
Any ideas how to migrate this account over?
Thanks.

Figured it out, for reference:
Don't try to boot from the external drive, just use it as a source for the Migration Assistant. Obvious really.

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