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
Default behavior of drive mapping
If mapping is not selected during the migration, the default behavior of the drive mapping with Migrate is:
● If the new PC has only one drive, then all the drives are mapped to the single drive as there are no alternatives available.
● If more than one drive is available on the new PC:
○ Migrate maps the operating system drive on the old PC to the operating system drive on the new PC.
○ Migrate maps the old PC drive to the new PC drives where the names match, and space is available on the new PC drive.
○ Migrate maps the old PC drive to a new PC drive based on the size if the names do not match.
○ Migrate maps the old PC drive to the operating system drive on the new PC and clears the default drive mapping if the
transfer size of any drive on the old PC is 0.
Migration progress
If you click Migrate now, the new PC displays the migration progress, while the old PC displays a message, We're migrating
your data now. The time taken to complete a migration depends on the network speed and the amount of data that are
selected for migration.
Figure 82. Migration in progress on your new PC
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