Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell Migrate User's Guide
- Contents
- Introduction
- Data Migration
- Migrate and erase data from old PC
- Check the network settings
- Change the system locale
- Device discovery and pre-checks
- Unsupported Windows version
- Applications to close before migrating
- Start Migrate
- Launch Data Assistant on your old PC
- Launch Migrate through SupportAssist on your new Dell PC
- Code verification
- Migrate multiple accounts
- Searching for files and settings
- Troubleshooting network disconnect issues during migration
- Create Data Assistant shortcut
- Select files to migrate
- Mapping the drives
- Migration progress
- Migration summary
- Migration completion
- Retry or finish the migration process after it was canceled
- Troubleshooting migration failure
- Troubleshooting when migration is completed with warnings
- Issues while launching Data Assistant on old PC
- Data Erase
- Perform erase without migration
- Prechecks for erase
- Disabling BitLocker
- Troubleshooting hard disk failure issues
- Troubleshooting when external storage is found
- Set reminder
- Levels of erase
- Reset SupportAssist OS Recovery
- Windows reset Windows 10
- Prerequisites for resetting Windows 8.1
- Troubleshooting Windows reset
- Manual Reboot
Figure 16. Ready to migrate page on your old PC
14. If you select Let me choose what to move, on the new PC, perform one of the following steps:
● Select the files and settings to be migrated from the old PC to the new PC.
● If you have multiple drives on either your old or new PC, click Change in the Files and settings will be saved to
section to map the drives between the old and the new PC, and perform the steps in the Mapping the drives section.
Figure 17. select files and settings to migrate
15. Click Migrate now.
The new PC displays the migration progress, while the old PC displays We're migrating your data now. The
time Migrate takes to complete a migration depends on the network speed and the amount of data that are selected for
migration.
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Data Migration