Acronis Migrate Easy - 7.0 Operating Instructions

Acronis® Migrate Easy

7.0

User’s Guide

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Table of contents

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION........................................................................................................6

1.1 What is Acronis® Migrate Easy? .............................................................................6

Upgrade Your Hard Disk Drive in Minutes!............................................................................6

Upgrading Has Never Been Easier or Safer!..........................................................................6

Acronis Migrate Easy key features:......................................................................................6

Supported operating systems..............................................................................................6

Supported file systems .......................................................................................................6

Navigating the Guide..........................................................................................................7

1.2 Software usage terms and conditions.......................................................................7

1.3 Technical Support...................................................................................................7

CHAPTER 1. INSTALLATION AND OPERATION ........................................................9

1.1 Bundle contents......................................................................................................9

1.2 System requirements..............................................................................................9

1.3 Acronis Migrate Easy installation ..............................................................................9

1.4 Running Acronis Migrate Easy................................................................................ 10

1.5 Removing the program..........................................................................................10

CHAPTER 2. GENERAL PROGRAM INFORMATION..................................................11

2.1 Main program window........................................................................................... 11

CHAPTER 3. TRANSFERRING THE SYSTEM TO A NEW DISK..................................13

3.1 General information.............................................................................................. 13

3.2 Security ............................................................................................................... 14

3.3 Executing transfers...............................................................................................14

3.4 Cloning with manual partitioning............................................................................ 21

CHAPTER 4. ADDING A NEW HARD DISK...............................................................23

4.1 Selecting a hard disk.............................................................................................23

4.2 Creating a new partition........................................................................................ 24

4.3 Selecting the file system type ................................................................................24

4.4 Selecting the partition type....................................................................................24

4.5 Disk add script......................................................................................................25

APPENDIX A. HARD DISKS AND BIOS SETUP ........................................................27

A.1 Installing hard disk s in computers.......................................................................... 27

A.1.1 Installing a hard disk, general scheme....................................................................27

A.1.2 Motherboard sockets, IDE cable, power cable .........................................................28

A.1.3 Installation modes, jumpers...................................................................................29

A.2 BIOS ...................................................................................................................30

A.2.1 Setup utility .........................................................................................................30

A.2.2 Standard CMOS setup menu..................................................................................30

A.2.3 Arranging boot sequence, advanced CMOS setup menu........................................... 32

A.2.4 AwardBIOS ..........................................................................................................33

A.2.5 Hard disk initialization errors.................................................................................. 37

APPENDIX B. PARTITIONS AND FILE SYSTEMS.....................................................38

B.1 Hard disk partitions...............................................................................................38

B.2 File systems......................................................................................................... 38

B.2.1 FAT16.................................................................................................................. 39

B.2.2 FAT32.................................................................................................................. 39

B.2.3 NTFS................................................................................................................... 39

B.2.4 Linux Ext2............................................................................................................40

B.2.5 Linux Ext3............................................................................................................40

Contents

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Linux ReiserFS...................................................................................................... 40

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

Supported operating systems

 Windows 98/Me  Windows NT 4.0 Workstation/Server  Windows 2000 Professional/Server/Advanced server  Windows XP  Windows 2003 Server  Windows Vista

Supported file systems

 FAT 16/FAT 32

Introduction

 NTFS  Ext2/Ext3,  ReiserFS  Linux Swap  sector-based support for other operating systems

Navigating the Guide

 This user’s guide contains the following main chapters:

Chapter 1 «Installation and operation» — contains detailed information about the

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installation and running Acronis Migrate Easy.

Chapter 2 «General program information»— describes components parts of the

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software and user’s interface.

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Chapter 3 «Transferring the system to a new disk» - describes process of

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.

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Appendix A «Hard disks and BIOS setup» - provide you with extra information on

the hard disk organization, how information is stored on disks, how disks should be installed in the computer and plugged into 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

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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 you r 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

Introduction

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 http://www.acronis.com/support/ Technical support e-mail address: support@acronis.com Fax technical support at: (650) 875-7587

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 (64 for a full version) 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 bootable diskette or CD-R/W. (You can omit this step if you have purchased the boxed product that 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.

After installation of Acronis Migrate Easy is completed, you should restart your computer.

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 Acronis Migrate Easy in the Programs menu. You will see a dialog to 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.

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

General program information

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 task 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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