User Guide Owner's manual
Table of contents
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Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007
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 disks 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