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 103. Searching for new PC
Perform erase after closing Data Assistant post pairing
Figure 104. Relaunching Data Assistant after closing
If you click Erase this PC, a message is displayed that migration is not performed. You can either choose to begin migration or
go to the erase process.
It is recommended that you click Perform Migration to ensure that all your personal files and settings are safely and securely
migrated to your new PC. But you must click Proceed To Erase in case your data was backed up by some other means, and
you are ready to reset your old PC to its factory state.
Click Erase This PC when the application is ready to migrate
If this is the first migration process and you are in We're ready to start your migration page, and if you click Erase this PC,
a message is displayed that migration is not performed.
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Data Erase