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 92. Migration completed with skipped files or settings on your old PC
Steps
1. On the new PC, click Show Skipped files on the summary page to view the details of the migration.
Figure 93. Migration summary on your new PC
The details of the files and settings that were skipped during the migration are displayed.
2. Perform one of the following steps:
● Click Retry to migrate the skipped files.
● Click Finish to continue migration without the skipped files.
3. Expand Files not copied to review the skipped files. To view the reason for migration failure of a file, point the mouse
cursor on the tooltip icon.
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