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 78. Shortcut already present
Select files to migrate
Related video: How to manually select the data you want to migrate
Steps
Perform one of the following steps:
● Click Move everything for me to move all the user files and settings from old the PC to the new PC.
● Click Let me choose what to move to select the user files and settings you would want to move instead of moving
everything from the old PC to the new PC.
Figure 79. Select files to migrate on your new PC
Migration of file attributes
When a file is migrated from the old PC to the new PC, the actual file content is first copied to the new PC. The attributes of
the file such as timestamp and metadata are then applied to the file from the old PC to the new PC. For example, if you migrate
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