- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- 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
- Interpret migration report
- 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
- Program Compatibility Assistant
- 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
- Erase Windows 7
- Troubleshooting Windows reset
- Manual Reboot
- Running Dell Migrate on desktop PCs
- Update .NET Framework
- Tips for faster data migration
- Migration of OneDrive files
- Default exclusions from migration
- Error codes
Dell Migrate User's Guide
Introduction
Dell Migrate is an on-demand service that enables you to securely migrate your personal files and settings to your Dell PC from any PC running the Windows operating system. After you migrate your data, you can erase and reset your old PC before you sell, gift, or trade in the PC. To purchase the Migrate service for your PC, go to the Dell Migrate page.
NOTE:The migrate service is available only for the Inspiron, Inspiron G Series, XPS, and Alienware PCs in certain regions. See
Table 1 for the list of supported regions.
NOTE:Data migration is supported on old PCs running the Windows operating system 7 or later. Erase and reset is supported on old PCs running the Windows operating system 8.1 or later.
In this document, the term old PC refers to the PC from which your data is migrated, and new PC refers to the Dell PC to which your data is migrated.
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