Table Of Contents - ACRONIS MIGRATE EASY 7.0 User Manual

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 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
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