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
Migration progress
If you click Migrate now, the migration progress is displayed on the new PC, while on the old PC, the We're migrating your
data now message is displayed. The time taken to complete a migration depends on the network speed and the amount of data
that are selected for migration.
Figure 85. Migration in progress on your new PC
Figure 86. Migration in progress on your old PC
Migration summary
When the migration is complete, the summary of files and settings that were migrated from the old PC to the new PC is
displayed on the new PC. Click Finish to complete the migration. Click here to view the details of the entire migration.
NOTE:
If any files or settings are not migrated, retry by performing the steps in Troubleshooting when migration is
completed with warnings.
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