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 81. Metadata of a file
● Other attributes
○ Read-only—if a file is marked as read-only on the old PC, it means that you can only read the file, but cannot make any
changes.
○ Hidden—if a file is marked as hidden, it means that the file is present on the file system, but it is not visible to you.
Files that were marked with read-only or hidden attributes on the old PC, are copied along with these attributes on the new
PC without you having to set those attributes manually again.
To view these attributes of a file, right-click the file name and select Properties. These attributes are displayed in the General
tab.
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