Migration assistant hangs when inspecting my pc

I have installed Windows Migration Assistant on my PC. When I start it from Utilities on my iMac and connect it just hangs while inspecting my pc. I left it for 24 hours before closing it down. Does anyone have any suggestions please?
Thanks

I know it's too late for the original poster, but I was having this problem as well. I quit migration assistant multiple times, relaunched, and it kept getting stuck on 'inspecting...'
I went ahead and rebooted both the Mac and PC, tried again, and it worked! Not sure which needed to be rebooted (although my hunch would be Windows because the Mac was brand new), but either way... when in doubt, reboot!

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