Acronis migrate easy 7.0 User Manual

 

Introduction 

 

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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? 

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! 

ƒ  Clone an old hard disk drive to a new one 
ƒ  Automatic and manual hard disk upgrade modes 
ƒ  Install new hard disk drive as a boot disk or as an additional storage device 
ƒ  Redeploy old hard disk 
ƒ  Resize transferred partitions to match new hard disk size 
ƒ  Securely clean and wipe old hard disk 

ƒ  This user’s guide contains the following main chapters: 

ƒ  Chapter 1 «Installation and operation» — contains detailed information about the 

installation and running Acronis Migrate Easy. 

ƒ  Chapter 2 «General program information»— describes components parts of the 

software and user’s interface. 

ƒ  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