User manual ACRONIS MIGRATE EASY 7.0

Acronis Migrate Easy 7.0 User's Guide www.acronis.com Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000­2004. 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. All other trademarks and copyrights referred to are the property of their respective owners. Distribution of substantively modified versions of this document is prohibited without the explicit permission of the copyright holder. Distribution of this work or derivative work in any standard (paper) book form for commercial purposes is prohibited unless prior permission is obtained from the copyright holder. 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Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000­2004 3 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 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 2.1 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 A.1 A.1.1 A.1.2 A.1.3 A.2 A.2.1 A.2.2 A.2.3 A.2.4 A.2.5 B.1 B.2 B.2.1 B.2.2 B.2.3 B.2.4 B.2.5 B.2.6 Bundle contents...................................................................................................... 7 System requirements .............................................................................................. 7 Acronis Migrate Easy installation .............................................................................. 7 Running Acronis Migrate Easy .................................................................................. 8 Removing the program............................................................................................ 8 Main program window............................................................................................. 9 General information .............................................................................................. 11 Security ............................................................................................................... 12 Executing transfers ............................................................................................... 12 Cloning with manual partitioning ............................................................................ 19 Selecting a hard disk............................................................................................. 21 Creating a new partition ........................................................................................ 22 Selecting the file system type ................................................................................ 22 Selecting the partition type.................................................................................... 22 Disk add script...................................................................................................... 23 Installing hard disks in computers .......................................................................... 25 Installing a hard disk, general scheme.................................................................... 25 Motherboard sockets, IDE cable, power cable ......................................................... 26 Installation modes, jumpers................................................................................... 27 BIOS ................................................................................................................... 28 Setup utility ......................................................................................................... 28 Standard CMOS setup menu .................................................................................. 28 Arranging boot sequence, advanced CMOS setup menu ........................................... 30 AwardBIOS .......................................................................................................... 31 Hard disk initialization errors.................................................................................. 35 Hard disk partitions............................................................................................... 36 File systems ......................................................................................................... 36 FAT16.................................................................................................................. 37 FAT32.................................................................................................................. 37 NTFS ................................................................................................................... 37 Linux Ext2............................................................................................................ 38 Linux Ext3............................................................................................................ 38 Linux ReiserFS...................................................................................................... 38 CHAPTER 2. GENERAL PROGRAM INFORMATION....................................................9 CHAPTER 3. TRANSFERRING THE SYSTEM TO A NEW DISK ..................................11 CHAPTER 4. ADDING A NEW HARD DISK...............................................................21 APPENDIX A. HARD DISKS AND BIOS SETUP ........................................................25 APPENDIX B. PARTITIONS AND FILE SYSTEMS.....................................................36 4 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000­2004 Introduction 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 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000­2004 5 Introduction 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 http://www.acronis.com/registration/ or by mail. to register your copy at 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: support@acronis.com Fax technical support at: (650) 875-7587 6 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000­2004 Installation and operation 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. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000­2004 7 Installation and operation 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. 8 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000­2004 General program information 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 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000­2004 9 General program information 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. 10 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000­2004 Transferring the system to a new disk 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 creating its image and restoring it to a new hard disk with larger partitions. Creating an image requires Acronis True Image 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 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000­2004 11 Transferring the system to a new disk 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 cloning, 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 12 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000­2004 Transferring the system to a new disk 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. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000­2004 13 Transferring the system to a new disk The previously selected source becomes grayed-out and disabled for selection. If either disk is unpartitioned, the program will automatically recognize 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. 14 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000­2004 Transferring the system to a new disk 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 program will just create a cloning script. All changes 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 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000­2004 15 Transferring the system to a new disk 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 16 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000­2004 Transferring the system to a new disk 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. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000­2004 17 Transferring the system to a new disk 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. 18 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000­2004 Transferring the system to a new disk 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. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000­2004 19 Transferring the system to a new disk 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! Clicking Back in this window will reset all size and location changes 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. 20 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000­2004