Paragon Migrate OS to SSD - 5.0 Owner's Guide

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Paragon® Migrate OS to SSD™ 5.0

User Guide

Table of Contents

Product Overview .......................................................................................................... 3

What is Migrate OS to SSD? ................................................................................................................ 3

Product Components .......................................................................................................................... 3

Key Features ....................................................................................................................................... 3

Getting Started .............................................................................................................. 3

System Requirements ......................................................................................................................... 3

Installation ......................................................................................................................................... 4

First Start ........................................................................................................................................... 5

Changing Program Settings .......................................................................................... 10

Building Recovery Media ............................................................................................. 11

Booting from Recovery Media ..................................................................................... 16

Migrating Windows OS to SSD ..................................................................................... 17

WinPE Scenarios .......................................................................................................... 22

Fixing Boot Problems ........................................................................................................................ 22

Unlocking Bitlocked Volumes ............................................................................................................ 24

Adding Specific Drivers ..................................................................................................................... 26

Configuring Network ........................................................................................................................ 26

Network Troubleshooter .................................................................................................................. 28

Troubleshooting .......................................................................................................... 29

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Product Overview

What is Migrate OS to SSD?

Paragon Migrate OS to SSD helps to perform fast and safe Windows migrations to new storage devices (HDD or SSD) and even downsizes to smaller capacity drives, thanks to advanced data exclusion capabilities. You can transfer a live system with no impact to your work, and have your partitions automatically aligned in the process if needed.

Product Components

 Windows-based utility – the primary tool for copying your software environment to another hard disk or

solid state drive.

 WinPE bootable media to do migrations without installing the product. You can prepare it on a USB

thumb drive or in an ISO file with the program’s wizard. This media also contains Boot Corrector to help you fix most of the system boot problems that can be a result of a human factor, program error or a boot virus activity.

Key Features

 Transfers Windows OS, applications and user data to a larger or smaller storage device in a single

operation

 Supports any Windows OS since 7 SP1, including 64-bit versions configured to the uEFI-based boot mode  Automatically aligns partitions on the destination disk if necessary  Automatically detects and copies MSR  Allows the user to exclude data during the setup in order to fit in to the destination disk  Processes locked (in-use) disks with MS VSS to do migrations without rebooting Windows  Includes Paragon's time-proven move/resize functionality  Guarantees safety for the system and data

Getting Started

System Requirements

For the Windows installation package

 Windows 7 SP1 and later  Internet Explorer 10 and later  Opened ports in Firewall: inbound and outbound 80, 443  https://bo4-fe.paragon-software.com should be added to the list of trusted sites, besides the security

level for the trusted zone should not be higher than Medium-high. Go to Control Panel > Network and Internet > Internet Options > Security to configure the necessary parameters.

During the installation additional free space (up to 1GB) will be required.

In case there is some previous version of the program installed on the computer, the program will offer the user to uninstall it first.

For the WinPE bootable environment

 Intel Pentium III CPU or its equivalent, with 1000 MHz processor clock speed  At least 1 GB of RAM  SVGA video adapter and monitor  Keyboard  Mouse

Additional requirements

 Network card to send/retrieve data to/from a network computer  Recordable CD/DVD drive to burn data to compact discs  External USB hard drive to store data

Installation

Before the installation, please make sure the systems requirements are met. If everything is OK, please do the following to install the product:

1. Click on the supplied setup file to initiate the installation. First your system will be checked for the

presence of Visual Studio C++ 2010 Runtime Library and if not found, you will be prompted to install it (comes with the installation package).

2. The Welcome page will inform that the application is being installed. Click Next to continue.

3. Please Read Paragon License Agreement carefully and then select the appropriate option to accept.

Otherwise you won’t be able to proceed with the installation.

4. Provide the standard customer information, i.e. a user name and an organization. Besides you need to

decide whether to make the program available for all users of this computer (if several) or only for the current one.

5. If necessary, click Change to install the utility to a different location (by default C:\Program Files\Paragon

Software\Migrate OS to SSD 5.0\).

6. On the Ready to Install the Program page click Install to start the installation or Back to return to any of

the previous pages and modify the installation settings.

7. The final page reports the end of the setup process. Click Finish to complete the wizard.

First Start

After the installation you can see an icon of Migrate OS to SSD on the Windows desktop. Double click it to launch the utility.

If you see a blank window instead of the Activation dialog, please make sure the system

requirements are met.

Once started, you will see an activation dialog. Migrate OS to SSD is a commercially distributed product, which needs activation over the Internet. Enter your serial number, then click Activate.

After the activation, you will get access to the program interface.

The upper area of the main window contains several tabs: Home, Main View and X-View. Besides you can see two buttons in the right corner:

 Refresh to bring the displayed information up-to-date after connecting an external storage device,  Help to open the User Guide, visit Paragon’s Knowledge Base or Community Forum.

Home

Use this tab to change the program settings, build bootable recovery media or collect program logs.

For more details, please consult the following chapters:

- Changing Program Settings

- Building Recovery Media

- Troubleshooting

Main View

It is displayed each time you launch the program. Use this tab to see the layout of system storage devices, open program wizards and dialogs, monitor activities and some other actions.

By default, the program does not accomplish operations that may destroy the on-disk data immediately, but places them on a special list (the so-called virtual mode). First it helps to avoid possible mistakes as you should confirm all provided changes. Second it saves your time and effort when executing several operations, as you don’t need to wait for each operation to physically complete before proceeding to the next operation.

A corresponding bar appears in the upper area after you accomplish a potentially dangerous operation.

 Apply. Click to physically execute pending changes.  Discard. Click to cancel all pending changes.  Show changes. Click to see and manage pending changes.

Select Old disk layout to see your disks before accomplishing pending changes.

The Virtual operations bar is also displayed in the X-View mode.

Select New disk layout to see your disks after accomplishing pending changes. Use the arrow buttons below to see how the target disk layout changes after each operation.

 Undo. Click to cancel the last pending operation.  Redo. Click to cancel the last undo pending operation.

Disk Map

The Disk Map displays the layout of storage devices. Each device is represented with a rectangle bar that contains small-sized bars, which represent partitions or logical disks. By looking at the size of the bar’s shaded area it is possible to estimate the used disk space.

Large-sized bars display the following information about storage devices:

 Type (physical, virtual),  Used partitioning scheme (MBR or GPT),  Total capacity.

Small-sized bars display the following information about logical disks and blocks of free space:

 Volume label (if exists),

 Total size,  File system.

Left click a disk, volume, or block of free space to call a context-sensitive menu with detailed information on the selected object and a list of available operations.

Wizards

Select Migrate to transfer Windows OS, applications and used data to another HDD or SSD. If a destination disk is not enough in capacity to hold your software environment, you will be able to remove redundant data during the setup.

X-View

Use this tab to simplify the working environment and only see the main program wizards.

Changing Program Settings

Select Home > Settings to access the program settings.

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