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 prechecks
- 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
- Migration of file attributes
- 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
- Running Dell Migrate on desktop PCs
- Tips for faster data migration
- Migration of OneDrive files
Figure 34. Region Settings
4. Click Restart Now to restart your PC for the changes to take place.
Device discovery and prechecks
Before the old and the new PCs are linked for migration, a series of checks or validations are done to assess the readiness of
the PCs. The checks are known as prechecks or prerequisites. Prechecks that are run on both the old and the new PCs are:
● Locale check
● Logged-in user check
● Network check
● Operating system check
● Application check
● Battery check
NOTE: The same set of prechecks is run on both the new PC and the old PC before proceeding with the migration.
Figure 35. Running prechecks on your new PC
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