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MIGRATE EASY 7.0
Operating Instructions
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Acronis MIGRATE EASY 7.0 User Manual

Acronis Migrate Easy 7.0
User’s Guide
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Table of contents
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION........................................................................................................5
1.1 What is Acronis Migrate Easy? .................................................................................5
Upgrade Your Hard Disk Drive in Minutes!............................................................................5
Upgrading Has Never Been Easier or Safer!..........................................................................5
Acronis Migrate Easy key features:......................................................................................5
Navigating the Guide..........................................................................................................5
1.2 Software usage terms and conditions.......................................................................6
1.3 Technical Support...................................................................................................6
CHAPTER 1. INSTALLATION AND OPERATION ........................................................7
1.1 Bundle contents......................................................................................................7
1.2 System requirements..............................................................................................7
1.3 Acronis Migrate Easy installation ..............................................................................7
1.4 Running Acronis Migrate Easy..................................................................................8
1.5 Removing the program............................................................................................8
CHAPTER 2. GENERAL PROGRAM INFORMATION....................................................9
2.1 Main program window.............................................................................................9
CHAPTER 3. TRANSFERRING THE SYSTEM TO A NEW DISK..................................11
3.1 General information.............................................................................................. 11
3.2 Security ...............................................................................................................12
3.3 Executing transfers...............................................................................................12
3.4 Cloning with manual partitioning............................................................................ 19
CHAPTER 4. ADDING A NEW HARD DISK...............................................................21
4.1 Selecting a hard disk.............................................................................................21
4.2 Creating a new partition........................................................................................ 22
4.3 Selecting the file system type ................................................................................22
4.4 Selecting the partition type....................................................................................22
4.5 Disk add script......................................................................................................23
APPENDIX A. HARD DISKS AND BIOS SETUP ........................................................25
A.1 Installing hard disk s in computers.......................................................................... 25
A.1.1 Installing a hard disk, general scheme....................................................................25
A.1.2 Motherboard sockets, IDE cable, power cable .........................................................26
A.1.3 Installation modes, jumpers...................................................................................27
A.2 BIOS ...................................................................................................................28
A.2.1 Setup utility .........................................................................................................28
A.2.2 Standard CMOS setup menu..................................................................................28
A.2.3 Arranging boot sequence, advanced CMOS setup menu........................................... 30
A.2.4 AwardBIOS ..........................................................................................................31
A.2.5 Hard disk initialization errors.................................................................................. 35
APPENDIX B. PARTITIONS AND FILE SYSTEMS.....................................................36
B.1 Hard disk partitions...............................................................................................36
B.2 File systems......................................................................................................... 36
B.2.1 FAT16.................................................................................................................. 37
B.2.2 FAT32.................................................................................................................. 37
B.2.3 NTFS................................................................................................................... 37
B.2.4 Linux Ext2............................................................................................................38
B.2.5 Linux Ext3............................................................................................................38
B.2.6 Linux ReiserFS...................................................................................................... 38
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Introduction

Introduction

1.1 What is Acronis Migrate Easy?

Upgrade Your Hard Disk Drive in Minutes!

It’s finally time. You’ve put it off as long as possible, but it’s now time to upgrade to a new hard disk drive. And if you’re like most users, you’re not excited, you’re scared. You think you’re in for a large project spanning several days of tedious work. Luckily for you, there’s Acronis Migrate Easy, an award-winning s olution that migrates all your computer data to a new hard disk drive in minutes, and keeps all operating systems and applications fully functional just the way you had them. Why take days upgrading when you can use Acronis Migrate Easy and be finished in minutes?

Upgrading Has Never Been Easier or Safer!

And with Acronis Migrate Easy, you don’t have to be a computer whiz to upgrade to a new hard disk drive. Simply make a few choices when prompted, and Acronis Migrate Easy will take care of everything else automatically. It will even show you a preview of the migration so you are sure to migrate exactly what you intend to. Within minutes, your data, including applications and operating systems, will be safely on your new hard disk drive and ready to go!

Acronis Migrate Easy key features:

Clone an old hard disk drive to a new one Automatic and manual hard disk upgrade modes Install new hard disk drive as a boot disk or as an additional storage device Redeploy old hard disk Resize transferred partitions to match new hard disk size Securely clean and wipe old hard disk

Navigating the Guide

This user’s guide contains the following main chapters: Chapter 1 «Installation and operation» — contains detailed information about the
installation and running Acronis Migrate Easy.
Chapter 2 «General program information»— describes components parts of the
software and user’s interface.
Chapter 3 «Transferring the system to a new disk» -
transferring of system on a new hard disk by cloning of an old disk
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Chapter 4 «Adding a new hard disk» - describes how to add a new disk only to
store data, leaving the system on the old disk.
Appendix A «Hard disks and BIOS setup» - provide y ou with extra information on
the hard disk organization, how information is stored on disks, how disks should be installed in the computer and plugged int o the motherboard, configuring disks with BIOS, partitions and file systems, and how operating systems interact with disks.
Appendix B «Partitions and file systems» - contains general information on disk
partitioning and main file systems types.

1.2 Software usage terms and conditions

The conditions for Acronis Migrate Easy software usage are described in the «License Agreement» included with this package. The su pplied registration card is the confirmation of your legal purchase and usage of Acronis Migrate Easy on your system. Each registration card has a unique registration number.
Under current legislation, the «License Agreement» is considered a contract between you and Acronis Inc. The contract is a legal document and its violation may result in legal action.
Illegal use and/or distribution of this software will be prosecuted.
1.3 Technical Support
Users of legally purchased copies of Acronis Migrate Easy ar e entitled to free e-mail technical support from Acronis. If you have installation or working problems that you can’t solve by yourself using this manual and the readme.txt file, e-mail or fax the technical support team.
Before you do this, you will have to register your copy at
http://www.acronis.com/registration/ or by mail.
When contacting technical support, you must provide the number of your Acronis Migrate Easy copy that is written on a registration card bundled with the program. This number is made up of five sets of five characters separated by hyphens; there is a total of 25 letters and numbers.
For more information visit Technical support e-mail address: Fax technical support at: (650) 875-7587
http://www.acronis.com/support/
support@acronis.com
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Installation and operation

Chapter 1. Installation and operation
1.1 Bundle contents
The Acronis Migrate Easy system package includes:
• an installation disk
• user manual
• License Agreement
• registration card
• advertising materials
1.2 System requirements
Acronis Migrate Easy requires the following hardware:
• Pentium or compatible PC
• 32 MB RAM
• floppy disk drive or CD-ROM drive
• mouse (recommended)
• free hard disk space for image files
A CD-ROM drive is required to install Acronis Migrate Easy

1.3 Acronis Migrate Easy installation

To install Acronis Migrate Easy:
1. Insert the installation CD into your drive.
2. Follow the instructions on the screen.
3. After making your installation choices and copying Acronis Migrate Easy files onto your hard disk, you will be prompted to create a
CD-R/W.
contains a bootable CD). While Acronis Migrate Easy creates disk images in Windows, it might be necessary to restore the image from a bootable disk. Therefore, it is strongly recommended that you create on e. However, you can do that after the installation as well.
(You can omit this step if you have purchased the boxed product that
bootable diskette or
After installation of Acronis Migrate Easy is completed, you should restart your computer.
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Installation and operation

1.4 Running Acronis Migrate Easy

In normal mode, you can run Acronis Migrate Easy from Windows by selecting Acronis →
Migrate Easy → Acronis Migrate Easy, from Start → Programs.
This will bring the program window onto the screen.

1.5 Removing the program

To remove Acronis Migrate Easy from your PC, select Acronis →Migrate Easy →
Uninstall
confirm the program removal. Click Yes to confirm and Acronis Migrate Easy will be completely removed. You may have to reboot your computer afterwards to complete the task.
Acronis Migrate Easy in the Programs menu. You will see a dialog to
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General program information

Chapter 2. General program information

2.1 Main program window

The main program window contains the menu, toolbar and the Windows XP Explorer-like interface divided into two areas. The right area contains operation icons; the left one has corresponding action descriptions, typical actions and additional tools.
The main program window
The menu, toolbar and menu items in the left area duplicate themselves, providing more convenience.
Having selected (clicked) an operation, you can execute it in several ways: by double-clicking its icon, by selecting Start Now in the Operations menu, by selecting the same operation in the Operations window, or by clicking Start Now on the toolbar.
The main window contains the New Disk Deployment group includes operations required when a new disk drive is installed:
• Disk Clone – transfer operating system, applications and data from the old disk
to the new one
• Add New Disk – add a disk for data storage, leaving the operating system and
applications on the old drive
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Program menu
The program menu line contains the Operations, View, Tools, and Help items. The Operations menu changes when ei ther an operation icon or scheduled t ask is
selected. In the first case, the menu contains only Start Now to execute the selected operation.
The Tools menu contains the following items:
• Create Bootable Rescue Media – runs the bootable media creation procedure
The View menu contains items for managing the program window look:
• Toolbars – contains commands that control toolbar icons
• Common Task Bar – enables/disables common task panel in the left area
• Status Bar – enables/disables the status bar
• Tiles Icons List – controls how operation icons look
• Refresh – refreshes the main program window
The Help menu allows you to invoke help and get information about Acronis Migrate Easy.
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Transferring the system to a new disk

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Chapter 3. Transferring the system to a new
disk
3.1 General information
Sooner or later, many PC users find that their hard disk is too small. If you just don’t have space for more data, you can add another disk just for data storage as described in the following chapter.
However, you might find that your hard disk does not have enough space for the operating system and installed applications, preventing you from updating your software. In this case, you have to transfer the system to a higher-capacity hard disk.
To do that, you must first install the disk in the PC. Although this operation is relatively simple, we do not recommend that inexperienced users perform it themselves; you should have a professional to do it. If you still want to do this yourself, see Appendix B.
If a PC doesn’t have a bay for another hard disk, you can temporarily install it in place of you r CD-ROM. If it’s still impossible, you can clone a hard disk by creatin to a new hard disk with larger partitions. Creatin software.
an image requires Acronis True Image
its image and restoring it
There are two transfer modes available: automatic an d ma nua l. In the automatic mode, you will only have to take a few simple actions to transfer
all the data, including partitions, folders and files, to a newer disk. You also will make the disk bootable if the original disk was bootable.
There will be only one difference between these disks – partitions on the newer disk will be larger. Everything else, including the installed operating systems, data, disk labels, settings, software and everything else on the disk will remain the same.
This is the only result available in the automatic mode. The progra m can only duplicate the original disk layout to the new one. To obtain a different result, you will have to answer additional questions about cloning parameters.
The manual mode will provide more data transfer flexibility.
1. You will be able to select the method of partition and data transfer:
• as is
• new disk space is proportionally distributed between the old disk partitions
• new disk space is distributed manually
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Transferring the system to a new disk
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2. You also will be able to select operations to perform on the old disk:
• leave partitions (and data) on the old disk
• remove all information from the old disk
• Create new partitions on the old disk (and remove all the older information)
On all screenshots below, damaged partitions are marked with a red circle and a white cross inside in the upper left corner. Before you start clonin using corresponding operating system tools.
, you should check such disks for errors
3.2 Security
Please note the following: if the power goes out or you accidentally press RESET during the transfer, the procedure will be incomplete and you will have to partition and format or clone the hard disk again.
No data will be lost on the original disk; it was only being read (no partitions were changed or resized).
We do not recommend that you delete data from the old disk until you are sure it is correctly transferred to the new disk, the PC boots up fr om it and all applications work.
3.3 Executing transfers
Selecting transfer mode
You will see the Select transfer mode window just after the welcome window.
Transfer mode selection
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