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  • Page 1 Acronis Migrate Easy 7.0 User’s Guide www.acronis.com...
  • Page 2 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2004. All rights reserved. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. OS/2 is a registered trademark of IBM Corporation. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group. Windows and MS-DOS are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.
  • Page 3 G. Making telecommunication data transmission of the software. Acronis has the right to terminate this license if there is a violation of its terms or default by the Original Purchaser. Upon termination for any reason, all copies of the Software must be immediately returned to Acronis, and the Original Purchaser shall be liable to Acronis for any and all damages suffered as a result of the violation or default.

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    Table of contents Table of Contents INTRODUCTION......................5 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 Software usage terms and conditions ...............

  • Page 5: Introduction

    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.

  • Page 6: Software Usage Terms And Conditions

    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.

  • Page 7: Chapter 1. Installation And Operation

    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.

  • Page 8: Running Acronis Migrate Easy

    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.

  • Page 9: Chapter 2. General Program Information

    • 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 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2004...
  • Page 10 • 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. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2004...

  • Page 11: Chapter 3. Transferring The System To A New Disk

    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 creating its image and restoring it to a new hard disk with larger partitions. Creating an image requires Acronis True Image software.

  • Page 12: Security

    PC boots up from it and all applications work. Executing transfers Selecting transfer mode You will see the Select transfer mode window just after the welcome window. Transfer mode selection Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2004...
  • Page 13 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. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2004...
  • Page 14 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. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2004...
  • Page 15 (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 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2004...
  • Page 16 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 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2004...
  • Page 17 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.
  • Page 18 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. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2004...

  • Page 19: Cloning With Manual Partitioning

    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.
  • Page 20 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. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2004...

  • Page 21: Chapter 4. Adding A New Hard Disk

    New partition creation. If there are any partitions on the new disk, they must be deleted first. Select Delete partitions on the destination hard disk and click Next to continue. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2004...

  • Page 22: Creating A New Partition

    During creation of the new partition you should choose type of file system for him. Acronis Migrate Easy supports all Windows file systems (FAT 16, FAT32 and NTFS), and also the most popular Linux file systems (Ext2, Ext2, ReiserFS and Linux Swap).

  • Page 23: Disk Add Script

    Adding a new hard disk Partition type window Disk add script In the next window, you will see the disk add script containing a list of briefly described operations to be performed on partitions (disks). Disk imaging script Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2004...
  • Page 24 Adding a new hard disk After you click Proceed, Acronis Migrate Easy will start creating and formatting new partitions, 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 disk add procedure.

  • Page 25: Appendix A. Hard Disks And Bios Setup

    7. Set the boot sequence to A:, C:, CD-ROM or some other, depending on where your copy of Acronis Migrate Easy is located. If you have a boot diskette, set the diskette to be first; if it is on a CD, make the boot sequence start with CD- ROM.

  • Page 26: Motherboard Sockets, Ide Cable, Power Cable

    SCSI hard disks are not usually used in personal computers (workstations), but are found mostly in servers. Aside from an IDE cable, a 4-thread power cable must be connected to the hard disks. There is only one way to plug in this cable. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2004...

  • Page 27: Installation Modes, Jumpers

    It is not enough to physically connect the hard disk to the motherboard and set the jumpers properly for the hard disk to function — hard disks have to be properly configured with the motherboard BIOS. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2004...

  • Page 28: Bios

    A.2.2 Standard CMOS setup menu Parameters in the standard CMOS setup menu usually define the geometry of the hard disk. The following parameters (and values) are available for each hard disk installed in your PC: Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2004...
  • Page 29 Method of translation of sector addresses. (Translation LBA/ Method) Large/Auto For example, to demonstrate the main features of Acronis Migrate Easy we used a Quantum Fireball TM1700A hard disk as one of the disks in our examples. Its parameters have the following values:...

  • Page 30: Arranging Boot Sequence, Advanced Cmos Setup Menu

    SCSI hard disks. This order is broken if you change the boot sequence in BIOS setup. If, for example, you specify that booting has to be done from hard disk E:, numbering Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2004...

  • Page 31: Awardbios

    AwardBIOS Setup Utility Main Primary Master [Auto] Item Specific Help: Type [Auto] <Enter> to select the type of the IDE drive. [User Type HDD] allows you to set each entry on your own. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2004...
  • Page 32 ←→ Select Menu Enter Select Sub-Menu F10 Save and Exit Enter the values of Translation Mode, Cylinders, Head and Sector parameters (you can find them on the case of the hard disk) to finish the initial configuring of the hard disk with BIOS. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2004...
  • Page 33 Select an item of the list with the Up or Down keys and move the device up the list or down it with help of + or - keys. This will change the boot sequence. For example, you can select the boot sequence as the one shown below: Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2004...
  • Page 34 The Type parameter can have Auto, Not Installed or User Defined values. In the latter case, you have to specify the values of other parameters manually (except MODE) according to the information on the case of the hard disk. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2004...

  • Page 35: Hard Disk Initialization Errors

    • hard disk parameters in BIOS setup • jumpers on the controller (master/slave) • interface cables It is also possible that the device is out of order, or the hard disk is not formatted. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2004...

  • Page 36: Appendix B. Partitions And File Systems

    4 strings only. However, this does not mean you can have only 4 operating systems on your PC! Actually, existing applications called disk managers support far more operating systems on disks. For example, Acronis OS Selector enables you to install up to 100 operating systems!

  • Page 37: Fat16

    The maximum FAT32 disk size is 2 terabytes (1 terabyte, or TB, is equal to 1024 gigabytes, or GB). B.2.3 NTFS NTFS is the main file system for Windows NT/2000/XP. Its structure is closed, so no other operating system is fully supported. The main structure of NTFS is the MFT Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2004...

  • Page 38: Linux Ext2

    ReiserFS was officially introduced to Linux in 2001. ReiserFS overcomes many Ext2 disadvantages. It is a 64-bit journaling file system that dynamically allocates space for data substructures. Acronis, Inc 395 Oyster Point Blvd, Suite 213 South San Francisco, CA 94080 USA http://www.acronis.com info@acronis.com Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2004...

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