ACRONIS MIGRATE EASY 7.0 User manual

Acronis Migrate Easy 7.0
User’s Guide
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Table of contents
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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 disks 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

Introduction
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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 solution 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» - 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.
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
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 supplied 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 are 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 http://www.acronis.com/support/
Technical support e-mail address: [e-mail]
Fax technical support at: [phone]

Installation and operation
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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 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 one. However, you can
do that after the installation as well.
After installation of Acronis Migrate Easy is completed, you should restart your
computer.

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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.

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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 either 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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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 your
CD-ROM. If it’s still impossible, you can clone a hard disk by creatin
g
its ima
g
e and restorin
g
it
to a new hard disk with larger partitions. Creatin
g
an ima
g
e requires Acronis True Ima
g
e
software.
There are two transfer modes available: automatic and manual.
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 program 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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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
g
, you should check such disks for errors
using corresponding operating system tools.
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 from 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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We recommend using automatic mode in most cases. The manual mode can be
useful if you need to change the disk partition layout.
If the program finds two disks, one partitioned and another unpartitioned, it will
automatically recognize the source disk as the partitioned disk and the destination disk
as the unpartitioned disk, so the next two steps will be bypassed.
Selecting source disk
If the program finds several partitioned disks, it will ask you which is the source (i.e.
the original data disk).
You can determine the source and destination using the information provided in this
window (disk number, capacity, label, partition and file system information).
Selecting destination disk
After you select the source disk, you have to select the destination where the disk
information will be copied.

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The previously selected source becomes grayed-out and disabled for selection.
If either disk is unpartitioned, the pro
g
ram will automatically reco
g
nize it as destination and
bypass this step.
Partitioned destination disk
At this point, the program checks to see if the destination disk is free. If not, you
will be prompted by the Partitioned destination disk window stating that the
destination disk contains partitions, perhaps with data.

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You can continue once existing partitions are deleted
You will have to select between:
•Delete partitions on the destination hard disk – all existing partitions will
be deleted during cloning and all their data will be lost.
•No, I do not want to delete partitions – no existing partition will be deleted,
discontinuing the cloning operation. You will only be able to cancel this
operation and return to select another disk.
To continue, select the first choice and click Next.
Note that no real changes or data destruction will be performed at this moment! For now, the
pro
g
ram will
j
ust create a clonin
g
script. All chan
g
es will be implemented only when you click
Proceed, after the script is formed.
Old and new disk partition layout
If you selected the automatic mode before, the program will not ask you for any
further information. You will see the window graphically illustrating information (as
rectangles) about the source disk (partitions and unallocated space) and the
destination disk layout.
Along with the disk number, some additional information is provided: Partition
number, volume label (e.g. SYSTEM), file system (e.g. FAT16 or FAT32), and
partition size in megabytes (MB). Partition types — primary, logical — and
unallocated space are marked with different colors.
Next you will see the cloning script.
Old disk data
If you selected the manual mode, the program will ask you what to do with the old
disk:
•Create a new partition layout – All existing partitions and their data will be
deleted (but they will also be cloned to the new disk, so you won’t lose them)
•Keep data – leave the old disk partitions and data intact
•Destroy data – delete partitions (and data!) from the old disk

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If you are going to sell or dispose of your old disk, we recommend that you make
sure you destroyed all the data on it.
If you are going to keep it for data storage, you can create a new partition layout
on it. In this case, the disk will be ready right after cloning is complete. To protect
yourself from unforeseen consequences, it would be better to leave the old disk
data intact, as you will be able to delete it later.
Destroying the old disk data
If you elected to destroy data, you will have to select the destruction method now:
•Quick – one-pass destruction
•Normal – guaranteed multipass destruction

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The second method takes more time, but makes it impossible to recover data
afterwards, even with special equipment.
The first method is less secure, but is still suitable for most cases.
Selecting partition transfer method
Acronis Migrate Easy will offer you the following data transfer methods:
•As is
•Proportional – the new disk space will be proportionally distributed between
cloned partitions
•Manual – you will specify the new size and other parameters yourself
If you elect to transfer information "as is," a new partition will be created for every
old one with the same size and type, file system and label. The unused space will
become unallocated. Further, you will be able to use the unallocated space to create
new partitions or to enlarge the existing partitions with special tools, such as
Acronis Partition Expert.
As a rule, "as is" transfers are inexpedient, as they leave much unallocated space on
the new disk.
If you transfer data proportionally, each partition will be enlarged, according to the
proportion of the old and new disk capacities.
Using the "as is" method, Acronis Migrate Easy also transfers unsupported and
damaged file systems.
FAT16 partitions are enlarged less than others, as they have the 4 GB size limit.

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Depending on the selected combination, you will proceed to either the old disk
partitioning window, or the disk partition layout window (see below).
Partitioning the old disk
If you selected Create a new partition layout earlier in the process, it is now
time to repartition your old disk.
During this step, you will see the current disk partition layout. Initially, the disk has
unallocated space only. This will change when you create new partitions.
Having completed the required steps, you will add a new partition. To create
another one, simply repeat those steps.
If you make a mistake, click Back to redo.
After you create the necessary partitions, uncheck the Create new partition in
unallocated space box and click Next.
Old and new disk partition layouts
In the next window, you will see rectangles indicating the source hard disk,
including its partitions and unallocated space, as well as the new disk layout.
Along with the hard disk number, you will also see partition number, volume label
(e.g. SYSTEM), file system (e.g. FAT16 or FAT32), partition size in megabytes (MB).
Different partition types, including primary, logical and unallocated space are
marked with different colors.

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If you have selected manual partition creation before, the partition layout will look different.
This partitioning method is described below.
Cloning script
In the next window, you will see the disk cloning script containing a list of briefly
described operations to be performed on the partitions.
Disk partitioning script
After you click Proceed, Acronis Migrate Easy will start cloning the old disk to the
new disk, indicating the progress in the special window. You can stop this procedure
by clicking Cancel. In that case, you will have to repartition and format the new
disk or repeat the cloning procedure.
After the operation is complete, you will see the results message.
3.4 Cloning with manual partitioning
Old and new disk partition layouts
The manual transfer method enables you to resize partitions on the new disk. By
default, the program resizes them proportionally.
In the next window, you will see rectangles indicating the source hard disk,
including its partitions and unallocated space, as well as the new disk layout.

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Along with the hard disk number, you will see partition number, volume label (e.g.
SYSTEM), file system (e.g. FAT16 or FAT32) and partition size in megabytes (Mb).
Different partition types, including primary, logical and unallocated space are
marked with different colors.
To resize either partition, check the Proceed Relayout box. If you are satisfied
with the partition layout shown, uncheck this box (if checked). Clicking Next, you
will proceed to the cloning script window.
Be careful! Clickin
g
Back in this window will reset all size and location chan
g
es that you've
selected, so you will have to specify them again.
First, select a partition to resize. It will be underlined in red.
Resize and relocate it on the next step.
You can do this by both entering values to Unallocated space before, Partition
size, Unallocated space after fields, by dragging partition borders or the
partition itself.
If the cursor turns to two vertical lines with left and right arrows, it is pointed at the
partition border and you can drag it to enlarge or reduce the partition’s size. If the
cursor turns to four arrows, it is pointed at the partition, so you can move it to the
left or right (if there's unallocated space near it).
Having provided the new location and size, click Next. You will be taken two steps
back to the partition layout. You might have to perform some more resizing and
relocation before you get the layout you need.