Why is my migration assistant frozen?

So I just bought I new 13 Mbps and i started to do the migration assistant  to migrate my data from my old computer to the new one. It started to do it and I left it and went to bed but then when I got up in the morning I went to check it and I couldn't wake it up. I plug it in and saw that it had died. It woke up with the bars at the bottom of the screen and came back to the migration assistant screen and said 47 minutes remaining so I left it but it hasn't gone past 47 minutes it just keeps at 47. So how do I fix it? Do I have to restart and if so how?
Thanks
Noah

The Mac went to sleep during the restore. If Migration Assistant doesn't carry on with the restore, you have to restart both computers and start the transfer again.
You should have transferred the files from the old PC or Mac during the initial setup, so it's easier > http://pondini.org/OSX/SetupLion.html As you are using Migration Assistant, on the MacBook, open System Preferences > Energy Saver, and set "Computer sleep" to Never

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