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
3. Expand Files not copied to review the skipped files. To view the reason for migration failure of a file, point the mouse
cursor on the tooltip icon.
Figure 97. Migration summary details on your new PC
4. If you want to retry the migration for the skipped files, review the suggestion on the tooltip icon and take the required
action. For example, close the document, browser, control panel, before retrying the migration process.
5. On the new PC, on the page where details of migration failure is displayed, click Retry to retry the skipped files and settings.
You can also select or clear the files or settings you want to retry. The migration of the skipped files or settings begins and
the progress of migration is displayed.
Figure 98. Retry option for skipped files and settings on your new PC
6. Click Finish to continue without skipped files.
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