Users Guide

Figure 65. Dell Data Assistant welcome back page
d. Log in or create the corresponding user account on your new PC. For example, if your user account was Linda M on
the old PC, you should log in to or create an account that is named Linda M on your new PC. Connect both the old and
the new PCs, and migrate the user accounts from the old PC to the new PC using Let me choose and select directory
of the current user in C:\Users\<user name>, and also selecting the desired settings. For more information about
connecting both the old and the new PCs, see Migrate and erase data from old PC.
Figure 66. Ensuring you are connected to the right user accounts
NOTE: You must sign into each user on the old and the new PC, and create multiple accounts on the new PC.
Also, if the account names on both the old and the new PCs do not match, for example, if the account name on the old
PC is Linda M and the account name on the new PC is Alice, Migrate displays a warning, but you can choose to proceed
if you know that you are migrating from the right account on the old PC to the right account on the new PC.
Searching for files and settings
After both the old and the new PCs are successfully paired, Migrate searches the old PC for the files and settings to be
migrated from the old PC to the new PC. On the old PC, Erase This PC option is displayed.
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Data Migration