Table of contents

1 2 Intel Data Migration Software ..............................................................................................2 General information ..............................................................................................................3 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 What is Intel Data Migration Software? ..................................................................................3 System requirements and supported media .............................................................................3 Program workspace ...................................................................................................................4 Technical Support ......................................................................................................................5 Upgrading Intel Data Migration Software .................................................................................5 Generating system reports ........................................................................................................5 Creating bootable media ...........................................................................................................6 Choose columns .........................................................................................................................8 Options ......................................................................................................................................8
Setting up the appearance ............................................................................................................................. 8 Font properties ................................................................................................................................................ 8

2.9.1 2.9.2

2.10 Intel Customer Experience Program ..........................................................................................8 3 4 Tasks and event log..............................................................................................................10 Tools & Utilities ...................................................................................................................11 4.1 4.2 Protection tools .......................................................................................................................11 Intel Data Migration Software Media Builder .........................................................................12
Bootable media contents selection ............................................................................................................. 12 Bootable media startup parameters ........................................................................................................... 13 Bootable media selection ............................................................................................................................. 14 Destination file selection .............................................................................................................................. 15 Bootable media creation summary ............................................................................................................. 15 Disk cloning .................................................................................................................................................... 15 Adding new hard disks .................................................................................................................................. 18 System clean-up utilities ............................................................................................................................... 21 Operation status............................................................................................................................................ 26

4.2.1 4.2.2 4.2.3 4.2.4 4.2.5

4.3

Disk management utilities .......................................................................................................15

4.3.1 4.3.2 4.3.3

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Other operations .................................................................................................................26

5.1.1

Glossary of terms .................................................................................................................27

1 Intel Data Migration Software

You can start Intel Data Migration Software in the following way: Normal mode - in normal mode, you can run Intel Data Migration Software from Windows by selecting Start -> All Programs -> Intel -> Intel Data Migration Software -> Intel Data Migration Software powered by Acronis or click on the appropriate shortcut on the desktop.

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2 General information
In this section, you can find the following general information on Intel Data Migration Software.

Intel Data Migration Software provides a set of powerful and easy-to-use hard disk utilities. The Clone Disk Wizard will transfer all contents from one disk to another hard disk drive, and the Add New Disk Wizard will help you to add a new hard disk to your computer. If you are going to install a new hard disk drive,Intel Data Migration Software will help you to transfer information from the old one in minutes, including operating systems, applications, documents, and personal settings. After migrating to the new hard disk you can destroy all confidential information on the old one securely. This is the recommended procedure if you intend to donate, throw away, or sell the old hard disk drive. Wizards and a Windows Vista-style interface will make your work easier. Just perform a few simple steps and let Intel Data Migration Software take care of everything else! When a system problem occurs, the software will get you up and running in no time.

2.1

What is Intel Data Migration Software?

2.2

Minimum system requirements:

System requirements and supported media

The hardware requirements of Intel Data Migration Software correspond to the minimum requirements for the operating system installed on the computer to be used for running Intel Data Migration Software. In addition Intel Data Migration Software requires the following hardware:

Intel SSD CD-RW/DVD-RW drive for bootable media creation

Mouse or other pointing device (recommended). Intel Data Migration Software media has the following hardware requirements: 256 MB RAM

Processor Pentium 1 GHz or faster The recommended minimum screen resolution is 1152 x 864. Supported operating systems: Intel Data Migration Software has been tested on the following operating systems:

Windows XP SP3 Windows XP Professional x64 Edition Windows Vista SP2 (all editions)

Windows 7 (all editions) Intel Data Migration Software also enables the creation of a bootable CD-R/DVD-R that can back up and recover a disk/partition on a computer running any Intel- or AMD- based PC operating system,
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including Linux. The only exception is the Intel-based Apple Macintosh, which is currently not supported in native mode. Supported file systems:

FAT16/32 NTFS

If a file system is not supported or is corrupted, Intel Data Migration Software can copy data using a sector-bysector approach.

2.3

Starting Intel Data Migration Software takes you to the Welcome screen. This screen provides quick access to practically all the program's functionality. Clicking the items in the right pane takes you to the corresponding wizard or screen where you can either start the selected task or function right away or make further selections. All the features listed in the right pane are duplicated on the left side of the screen occupied by the so called sidebar. The sidebar also provides easy access to all functionality of Intel Data Migration Software. The main functions are listed in the lower part of the sidebar. If you choose an item in the lower part, the upper part of the sidebar displays subitems related to the chosen item (if any) and the right part of the main window shows detailed information for the current subitem or a list of options available for that subitem.

Program workspace

Status bar
At the bottom of the main window, there is a status bar that briefly describes the selected operation or screen. If you select a task or log, the status bar will show information on the selected item.

Taskbar notification area icon

During most of the operations, a special indicator icon appears in the Windows taskbar notification area (the right portion of the status bar with the clock). If you mouse over the icon, you will see a tool tip indicating the operation's progress. Right-clicking on the icon opens a contextual menu where you can change process priority or cancel the operation if necessary. This icon doesn't depend on the main program window being open. Intel Data Migration Software uses wizards, which guide you through many operations. Like the main program window, wizards also have the sidebar listing all the steps (both required and optional) needed for completing the operation. The completed steps are marked with green checkmarks. The green arrow shows the current step. After you complete all the required steps, the Summary button becomes available. If you wish to omit the optional steps, click Summary, read the summary of the operation to be performed (to make sure that the default settings satisfy you) and then click Proceed to start the task. Otherwise proceed to the optional steps where you can change the default settings for the current task. Another useful screen shows logs of program operations. A calendar provides quick access to the logs (for past dates) or tasks (for future dates). You just click on a desired date. For more information see Viewing Tasks and Logs.
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We will not bore you with a description of other screens, because many of them are self-explanatory and some are described in the appropriate chapters of this guide. In addition, all screens have brief descriptions of the features they allow to access or use and you can always open contextual help by clicking the corresponding button. By the way, you can also select all the features through the main program menu, which is always at your disposal on the toolbar.

2.4

Support for Intel Data Migration Software users is provided by Intel. Please visit Intel's Support page at http://www.intel.com/go/ssdsupport/.

Technical Support

2.5

You can upgrade Intel Data Migration Software to Acronis True Image Home 2010 from the Acronis web site. The following features will be available only after upgrading to Acronis True Image Home 2010:

Upgrading Intel Data Migration Software

Acronis Try&Decide Disk/partition backup Disk/partition restore Nonstop backup Online backup System state backup Application backup Data backup (selected files/folders) Data restore Mounting images Scheduling Archive protection Cleanup utilities Consolidating backups Incremental and differential backups Notifications.

2.6

When you need help from Intel support team, in most cases information about your system is necessary for resolving your problem. Sometimes getting the information is an inconvenient process and may take a long time. The tool simplifies the procedure. It generates a system report containing all the necessary technical information and allows you to save the information to file. When its
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Generating system reports

necessary, you can attach the created file to your problem description and send it to Intel support team to simplify and speed up the search for a solution. To generate a system report:

Press the ALT key, and on the Help menu, click Generate System Report, or On the main program window click the Help arrow, and select Generate System Report, or

Press CTRL+F7. Note that you can use the key combination even when Intel Data Migration Software is performing any other operation. After the report is generated: To save the generated system report to file, click Save As and in the opened window specify a location for the created file.

To exit to the main program window without saving the report, click Cancel. You can place the feature on a bootable media as a specific component to be able to generate a system report when your computer cannot boot up. After you boot up from the media, you will be able to generate the report even without running Intel Data Migration Software. In this case you should plug in a USB flash drive before clicking the component icon. The generated report will be saved on the USB flash drive. To place Intel System Report on a bootable media:

Select the Intel System Report check box on the Bootable Media Content Selection page of the Intel Data Migration Software Media Builder wizard Click Next to continue

2.7

You can run Intel Data Migration Software from an emergency boot disk on a bare-metal system or a crashed computer that cannot boot. You can even back up disks on a non-Windows computer, copying all its data into the backup archive by imaging the disk one sector at a time. To do so, you will need bootable media that has a copy of the standalone Intel Data Migration Software version installed on it. If you purchased Intel Data Migration Software on the Web or as a download from a retailer, you can create bootable media using the Bootable Media Builder. For this, you will need a blank CD-R/RW, a blank DVD+R/RW or any other media from which your computer can boot, such as a Zip drive. Intel Data Migration Software also provides the ability to create an ISO image of a bootable disc on the hard disk.
If you have chosen not to install the Bootable Media Builder during Intel Data Migration Software installation, you will not be able to use this feature. *** When booting from the Bootable Media, you cannot perform backups to disks or partitions with Ext2/Ext3, ReiserFS, and Linux SWAP file systems.

Creating bootable media

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1. Choose Create Bootable Media in the Tools menu. You can also run the Bootable Media Builder without loading Intel Data Migration Software by choosing Programs Intel Intel Data Migration Software Bootable Media Builder from the Start menu. 2. Select which components of Intel programs you want to place on the bootable media. Intel Data Migration Software offers the following component: Intel Data Migration Software full version Includes support of USB, PC Card (formerly PCMCIA) and SCSI interfaces along with the storage devices connected via them, and therefore is strongly recommended. In the next window you can set Bootable Media Startup Parameters in order to configure bootable media boot options for better compatibility with different hardware. Several options are available (nousb, nomouse, noapic, etc.). All the available startup parameters are listed in Appendix D. Startup Parameters. These parameters are provided for advanced users. If you encounter any hardware compatibility problems while testing boot from the bootable media, it may be best to contact Intel Technical Support. You may opt for automatic start of the bootable media creation. In this case select the Start automatically after X seconds box and specify the number of seconds (maximum 100 seconds). To find out more about components of other Intel products, see their respective user guides. 3. Select the type of bootable media (CD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW or 3.5 diskettes) to create. If your BIOS has this feature, you can create other bootable media such as removable USB flash drives. You can also choose to create a bootable disk ISO image.
When using 3.5" diskettes, you will only be able to write one component at a time (for example, the full version of Intel Data Migration Software) on a set of diskettes. To write another component, start Bootable Media Builder again.

4. If you are creating a CD, DVD or any removable media, insert a blank disc so the program can determine its capacity. If you choose to create a bootable disc ISO image, specify the ISO file name and the folder in which to place it. 5. Next, the program will estimate how many blank diskettes are required (in case you have not chosen ISO or CD/DVD) and give you time to prepare them. When you are finished, click Proceed. After you create a boot disc, mark it and keep it in a safe place. Please keep in mind that the backups created by the later program version may be incompatible with the previous program versions. Due to this reason, we strongly recommend that you create a new bootable media after each Intel Data Migration Software upgrade. One more thing you should remember when booting from the bootable media and using a standalone version of Intel Data Migration Software, you cannot recover files and folders encrypted with use of the encryption feature available in Windows XP and Windows Vista operating systems. For more information see

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File-level security settings. On the other hand, backup archives encrypted using the Intel Data Migration Software encryption feature can be recovered.

2.8

You can select the columns to be displayed, by checking the appropriate column names. Use the Move Up and Move Down buttons to change the display order of the selected column. Click OK to apply the changes. Click Cancel to quit this window without saving your settings.

Choose columns

2.9

You can customize the options settings preset during installation of Intel Data Migration Software. The specified settings will be used by default for future tasks. You can customize the following options of Intel Data Migration Software:

Options

Appearance

You can always revert the changed settings to their default values.

To reset all the customized options to the default values click Reset all to default. To reset the current option settings to the default values click Reset the current to default.

2.9.1

Setting up the appearance

Tools & Utilities -> Options -> Appearance from the

To set up the program appearance, select main program menu.

The Appearance window contains two panels: the left one features the categories, while the right one the selected category parameters.

2.9.2

You can set up the font properties for the product interface items. To set up the font properties: Application - font used for all application items (toolbars, sidebars, wizards, message texts, etc.), except the menu commands. By clicking the ... button you can preview and choose the desired application font (its name, style and size). Menu commands - font used for the menu commands. By clicking the ... button you can preview and choose the font for the menu commands (its name, style and size).

Font properties

2.10 Intel Customer Experience Program

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Intel Customer Experience Program (CEP) is a new way to allow Intel customers to contribute to the features, design and development of Intel products. This program enables our customers to provide us with various information, including information about the hardware configuration of your host
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computer and/or virtual machines, the features you use most (and least), and the nature of the problems you face. Based on this information, we will be able to improve the Intel products and the features you use most often. If you choose to participate, the technical information will be automatically collected every 90 days. We will not collect any personal data, like your name, address, phone number, or keyboard input. Participation in the CEP is voluntary, however, but the end results intended to provide software improvements and enhanced functionality to better meet the needs of our customers. Note that you will be able to leave the program any time. Click the Learn more link to read the participation terms. To make a decision:

Choose Yes, I want to participate in the program if you want to join the program Choose No, I do not accept if you do not want to join the program

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3 Tasks and event log

The Tasks management window allows you to view information about tasks. The Tasks and event log window contains two panes: the upper one shows the event calendar, the lower one includes three tabs: Scheduled tasks, Unscheduled tasks and Log.

Event Calendar
The color marks in the event calendar show information about the days with scheduled tasks, successfully completed tasks, tasks completed with errors, as well as the current day. The left and right arrows buttons at the sides of the calendar allow you to browse the months being shown in the calendar.

Event log
To view the logs for a specific period, select the period by clicking the right arrow buttons in the To: and From: fields of the Show logs by period area. Clicking the arrow in the From: field opens a popup calendar where you can set the start day of the period by double-clicking the appropriate day. Then set the end day using the same procedure for the To: field. You can change the months and years in the pop-up calendars using the left and right arrows at the month name area. In addition, you can enter the start and end dates of the desired period directly in the fields. If you would like to see all the logs, click the Show all button. To delete a log entry, select it and click the Delete the selected log entry icon. To delete all log entries click the Delete all log entries icon. You can also save a log entry to file by clicking the appropriate icon. If any step was terminated by error, the corresponding log will be marked with a red circle with a white cross inside. The right pane features the list of steps contained in the selected log. The three buttons to the right control message filters: the white cross in the red circle filters error messages, the exclamation mark in a yellow triangle filters warnings, and the i in the blue circle filters information messages. To sort messages by a particular parameter, click its header (click again to reverse the order). Furthermore, you can change column width by dragging the borders with a mouse. To better view the details of the current step, you can hide the calendar by clicking the Up arrow at the top right of the calendar pane. This will enlarge the Details area at the bottom of the right pane. To view the calendar again, click the Down arrow at the top right of the calendar pane.

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4 Tools & Utilities

Intel Tools & Utilities include Protection tools, Disk management utilities, and System clean-up utilities.

Protection tools:
Intel Data Migration Software Media Builder Allows you to create a bootable media with Intel products (or their specified components) installed on your computer.

Disk management utilities:

Clone Disk Use Clone Disk Wizard, if you need to clone your hard disk drive by copying the partitions to another hard disk. Add New Disk Add New Disk Wizard (p. 18) helps you to add a new hard disk drive to your computer. You will be able to prepare the new hard disk drive by creating and formatting new partitions on this hard disk.

System clean-up utilities:

Acronis DriveCleanser Acronis DriveCleanser utility provides secure data destruction on your hard disk.

4.1

Protection tools help you prevent the situation when the operating system won't start up for some reason. With Intel Data Migration Software media builder, you will start Intel Data Migration Software without loading the operating system. You will be able to use Intel Data Migration Software by itself to recover damaged partitions.

Protection tools

Create Bootable Media

You can run Intel Data Migration Software on a bare metal or on a crashed computer that cannot boot. You can even back up disks on a non-Windows computer, copying all its data sector-by-sector into the backup archive. To do so, you will need bootable media with the standalone Intel Data Migration Software version. If you purchased Intel Data Migration Software on the Web, you can create bootable media using the Bootable Media Builder. You will need a blank CD-R/RW, DVDR(W), or any other media your computer can boot from, such as a Zip drive. To create a bootable media:

or
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On the sidebar, click Tools & Utilities, and then click Create Bootable Media

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On the toolbar, click Tools & Utilities and select Create Bootable Media Follow the Bootable Media Builder wizard's instructions.

4.2

You can run Intel Data Migration Software from an emergency boot disk on a bare-metal system or a crashed computer that cannot boot. You can even back up disks on a non-Windows computer, copying all its data into the backup archive by imaging the disk one sector at a time. To do so, you will need bootable media that has a copy of the standalone Intel Data Migration Software version installed on it. If you purchased Intel Data Migration Software on the Web or as a download from a retailer, you can create bootable media using the Bootable Media Builder. For this, you will need a blank CD-R/RW, a blank DVD+R/RW or any other media from which your computer can boot, such as a Zip drive. Intel Data Migration Software also provides the ability to create an ISO image of a bootable disc on the hard disk.
When booting from the Bootable Media, you cannot perform backups to disks or partitions with Ext2/Ext3, ReiserFS, and Linux SWAP file systems.

Intel Data Migration Software Media Builder

To create bootable media:

Run the Intel Data Migration Software Media Builder wizard. To do so:

Click the Tools & Utilities item on the sidebar and click Create Bootable Media or Click Tools & Utilities on the toolbar and select Create Bootable Media or Select Programs -> Intel -> Intel Data Migration Software -> Bootable Media Builder from the Start menu. Bootable media contents selection Bootable media startup parameters Bootable media selection Destination file selection Summary

Click Next and follow the wizard's steps:

4.2.1

You can select which components of Intel programs you want to place on the bootable media. Intel Data Migration Software offers the following components:

Bootable media contents selection

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Intel Data Migration Software (Full version) - includes support of USB, PC Card (formerly PCMCIA) and SCSI interfaces along with the storage devices connected via them, and therefore is strongly recommended.

Acronis System Report - the component allows you to generate a system report that is used for collecting information about your system in case of any program problem. Report generation will be available before you start Intel Data Migration Software from the bootable media. The generated system report can be saved to a USB flash drive. To select a component: Check the program you want to include into the bootable media. The bottom field displays the space required for the selected components. If you have other Intel products installed on your computer, you can also include standalone versions of these programs into the same bootable media. If automatic start of the program is necessary, check the Starts automatically after parameter and set the desired period (in seconds) after which the program will be stared. Click Next to continue

4.2.2

Here, you can set bootable media startup parameters in order to configure rescue media boot options for better compatibility with different hardware. Several options are available (nousb, nomouse, noapic, etc.). To add a startup parameter

Bootable media startup parameters

Enter a command into the Parameters field. Having specified the startup parameters, click Next to continue.

Additional parameters that can be applied prior to booting Linux kernel

Description
The following parameters can be used to load Linux kernel in a special mode:

acpi=off Disables ACPI and may help with a particular hardware configuration. noapic Disables APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) and may help with a particular hardware configuration.

nousb Disables loading of USB modules.

nousb2 Disables USB 2.0 support. USB 1.1 devices still work with this option. This option allows using some USB drives in USB 1.1 mode, if they do not work in USB 2.0 mode.

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This parameter is enabled by default and the startup messages are not displayed. Deleting it will result in the startup messages being displayed as the Linux kernel is loaded and the command being offered prior to running the Intel program.

nodma Disables DMA for all IDE disk drives. Prevents kernel from freezing on some hardware.

nofw Disables FireWire (IEEE1394) support. nopcmcia Disables PCMCIA hardware detection.

nomouse Disables mouse support. [module name]=off Disables the module (e.g. sata_sis=off).

pci=bios Forces to use PCI BIOS, and not to access the hardware device directly. For instance, this parameter may be used if the machine has a non-standard PCI host bridge. pci=nobios Disallows use of PCI BIOS; only direct hardware access methods are allowed. For instance, this parameter may be used if you experience crashes upon boot-up, probably caused by the BIOS.

pci=biosirq Uses PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt routing table. These calls are known to be buggy on several machines and they hang the machine when used, but on other computers it is the only way to get the interrupt routing table. Try this option, if the kernel is unable to allocate IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your motherboard.

4.2.3

Select a drive for bootable media creation:

Bootable media selection

Floppy diskette, CD-R/RW - if you are creating CD, diskettes or any removable media, insert the blank disk so that the program can determine its capacity. When using 3.5 inch diskettes, you will only be able to write one component at a time on a diskette (or a set of the diskettes). To write another component, start Bootable Media Builder once again. ISO image - having created an ISO disk image, you will be able to burn it onto any kind of recordable DVD, using DVD recording software. Creating a bootable DVD directly from Bootable Media Builder is impossible. any other media your PC can boot from, such as USB flash drives, Zip drive, etc.

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4.2.4

If you chose to create a bootable disk ISO image, specify the ISO file name and the folder where to place it: Select the destination folder from the folder tree Enter a name for the .iso file in the File name field Click Next to continue

Destination file selection

4.2.5

This page displays operations to be performed.

Bootable media creation summary

Click Proceed to start the bootable media creation process. Use the Back button to navigate through the wizard's steps for revision. To cancel operation and quit Intel Data Migration Software Media Builder, click Cancel. After you create a boot disc, mark it and keep it in a safe place. Please keep in mind that the backups created by the later program version may be incompatible with the previous program versions. Due to this reason, we strongly recommend that you create a new bootable media after each Intel Data Migration Software upgrade. One more thing you should remember when booting from the rescue media you cannot recover files and folders encrypted with use of the encryption feature available in Windows XP and Windows Vista operating systems.

Intel Data Migration Software provides a set of powerful and easy-to-use hard disk utilities. The Add New Disk Wizard will help you to add a new hard disk to your computer, and the Clone Disk Wizard will transfer all contents from one disk to another hard disk drive. Clone Disk Use Clone Disk Wizard, if you need to clone your hard disk drive by copying the partitions to another hard disk. Click the Clone Disk item to invoke the Clone Disk Wizard. Add New Disk Add New Disk Wizard helps you to add a new hard disk drive to your computer. You will be able to prepare the new hard disk drive by creating and formatting new partitions on this hard disk. Click the Add New Disk item to invoke the Add New Disk Wizard (p. 18).

4.3

Disk management utilities

4.3.1

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.
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Disk cloning

Intel Data Migration Software makes all the data transfer procedure from one disk to another (disk cloning) quite easy and clear. To clone a disk:

On the sidebar, click Tools & Utilities and select Clone Disk, or on the toolbar, click Tools & Utilities and select Clone Disk. Follow the Disk Clone Wizard steps:

Selecting clone mode Selecting source disk Selecting destination disk Move method Manual relayout Cloning summary

4.3.1.1

There are two transfer modes available:

Selecting clone mode

Automatic (recommended in most cases). In automatic mode, you will only have to take several simple actions to transfer all the data, including partitions, files and folders, to a newer disk, making it bootable if the original disk was bootable. Manual. Manual mode will provide more data transfer flexibility. 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.

4.3.1.2

You can determine the source and destination using the information provided in this window (disk number, capacity, label, partition and file system information). If the program finds several partitioned disks, it will ask you which is the source (i.e. the older data disk).
The current Intel Data Migration Software version does not support cloning of dynamic and GPT disks.

Selecting a drive

Select the drive and click Next to continue.

If there are a non-Intel system disk and only one Intel SSD attached, by default the non-Intel disk will be selected as a source and the Intel will be selected as a destination.

Viewing disk and partition information

Columns - selects the columns to display. You can change the width of a column by dragging its borders with the mouse.
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Disk properties (duplicated in the context menu, invoked by right-clicking objects) - opens the selected partition or disk properties window. This window contains two panels. The left panel contains the properties tree and the right describes the selected property in detail. The disk information includes its physical parameters (connection type, device type, size, etc.); partition information includes both physical (sectors, location, etc.), and logical (file system, free space, assigned letter, etc.) parameters.

4.3.1.3

After you select the source disk, you have to select the destination where the disk information will be copied to. The previously selected source becomes grayed-out and disabled for selection.

Selecting a destination disk

Select the destination disk and click Next to continue.

If either disk is unpartitioned, the program will automatically recognize it as the destination and bypass this step.

4.3.1.4

Intel Data Migration Software offers you the following data transfer methods: 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. Proportional - the new disk space will be proportionally distributed between cloned partitions Manual - you will specify a new size and other parameters yourself

Move method

Using the As is method, Intel Data Migration Software also transfers unsupported and damaged file systems.

4.3.1.5

The manual transfer method enables you to resize partitions on the new disk. By default, the program resizes them proportionally. This window displays 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 can see disk capacity, the label, volume and file system information. Different volume types, including primary, logical and unallocated space are marked with different colors. To resize, change the volume type, change the letter or label of the existing volume, right click on it, select Edit and in the new window set the necessary parameters. Clicking Next, you will proceed to the Cloning summary (p. 18) 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.
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Manual relayout

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The disk cloning summary contains a list of briefly described operations to be performed on the disks.

Cloning summary

Click Proceed to start disk cloning.

Click Cancel to cancel the procedure and quit to the main program window. Cloning a disk, containing the currently active operating system, will require reboot. After clicking Proceed you will be asked to confirm the reboot. Cloning a non-system disk or a disk, containing a not currently active OS, will proceed without reboot. After you click Proceed, Intel Data Migration Software will start cloning the old disk to the new disk, indicating the progress in a special window.

4.3.2

If you do not have enough space for your data (e.g. family photos and videos), you can either replace the old disk with a new higher-capacity one (data transfers to new disks are described in the previous chapter), or add a new disk only to store data, leaving the system on the old disk. If the computer has a bay for another disk, it would be easier to add a disk drive than to clone one. To add a new disk, you must first install it in your PC. To add a new hard disk:

Adding new hard disks

Click the Home item on the sidebar, go to Tools & Utilities and select Add New Disk, or click Tools & Utilities on the toolbar and select Add New Disk. Follow the Add New Disk Wizard steps:

Destination hard disk Creating new partitions Specifying settings for the new partition Add disk summary

If there are any partitions on the new disk, they must be deleted first. If the added disk contains partitions, Intel will warn you by displaying the warning message. Click OK to delete the existing partitions on the added disk.

4.3.2.1

Select the disk that you have added to the computer. If you have added several disks, select one of them and click Next to continue. You can add the other disks later by restarting the Add New Disk Wizard. You can also see the properties of all the hard disks installed into your system, e.g. the name and the model of the selected disk drive, its capacity, file system and its interface.

Destination hard disk

4.3.2.2
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In order to use the space on a hard disk, it must be partitioned. Partitioning is the process of dividing the hard disk's space into logical divisions. Each logical division may function as a separate disk with
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Creating new partitions

an assigned drive letter, its own file system, etc. Even if you do not intend to divide your hard disk into logical divisions it must be partitioned so that the operating system knows that it is intended to be left in one piece.
You can create partition(s) only if there is unallocated space on your disk.

To create a new partition:

Select the partition and click Create new partition in the upper part of the window, or right click on the partition, and select Create new partition in the context menu. Specify the following settings for the partition being created:

the size of the new partition, file system of the new partition, partition type, partition letter and label.

4.3.2.3
Size

Specify the settings for the partition being created. You can resize and relocate the partition being created. If you want to resize the partition:

Partition settings

Point the cursor at the partition border. If the cursor is pointed exactly at the partition border, it will change into two vertical lines with arrows on each side.

Hold down the left mouse button and drag the selected partition border to enlarge or reduce the partition size. You can also set the size of the partition manually, by typing-in the desired partition size in the Partition Size field. If you want to relocate the partition:

Point the cursor at the partition. The cursor will change into a crosshair. Hold down the left mouse button and drag the partition until you get the necessary size of the Free space before and/or Free space after fields. You can also set the amount of unallocated space before or after the selected partition by manually typing-in the necessary value in the respective fields.

If you create one or more logical drives, the program will reserve some unallocated space for system needs in front of the created partition(s). If you create a primary partition or a primary partition together with a logical one then no unallocated space will be reserved for system needs. Later, you may convert this unallocated area into a primary disk if there is any need for it.

File System
Choose the file system type for partition being created and click Next to continue. Different partitions may have different type of file system.
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You can either leave the partition unformatted, or choose between the following file system types:

FAT 16 native DOS system. Most operating systems recognize it. However, if your disk drive is more than 4 GB, it is not possible to format it in FAT16. FAT 32 is an improved 32-bit version of the FAT file system that supports volumes up to 2 TB. NTFS is a Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista native file system. Choose it if you use these operating systems. Note, that Windows 95/98/Me and DOS cannot access NTFS partitions. Linux Ext2 is a Linux native file system. It is fast enough, but it is not a journaling file system. Linux Ext3 officially introduced with Red hat Linux version 7.2, Ext3 is a Linux journaling file system. It is forwards and backwards compatible with Linux Ext2. It has multiple journaling modes, as well as broad, cross platform compatibility in both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures. Linux ReiserFS is a journaling file system for Linux. Generally it is more reliable and faster than Ext2. Choose it for your Linux data partition.

Partition type
In order to use the space on a hard disk, it must be partitioned. Partitioning is the process of dividing the hard disk's space into logical divisions. Each logical division may function as a separate disk with an assigned drive letter, its own file system, etc. Even if you do not intend to divide your hard disk into logical divisions, it must be partitioned so that the operating system knows that it is intended to be left in one piece. Choose the type of partition to be created. You can define the new partition as primary or logical.

Primary - choose this parameter if you are planning to boot from this partition. Otherwise, it is better to create a new partition as a logical drive. You can have only four primary partitions per drive, or three primary partitions and one extended partition. Note: If you have several primary partitions, only one will be active at a time, the other primary partitions will be hidden and wont be seen by the OS.

Mark the partition as active - an active partition is used for loading an operating system. Selecting Active for a partition without an installed operating system could prevent your computer from booting.

Logical - choose this parameter if you dont intend to install and start an operating system from the partition. A logical drive is part of a physical disk drive that has been partitioned and allocated as an independent unit, but functions as a separate drive. Note: if you create one or more logical drives, the system will reserve some unallocated space for system needs in front of created partition(s). If you create a primary partition or a primary partition together with a logical one, then no unallocated space will be reserved for system needs. Later on, you may convert this unallocated area into a primary disk if there is any need for it.

Partition letter
Select a letter to be assigned to the partition being created from the drop-down list. If Auto is selected, the program assigns the first unused drive letter in alphabetical order.
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Partition label
Partition label is a name, assigned to a partition so that you can easily recognize it. For example, one could be called System a partition with an operating system, Program an application partition, Data a data partition, etc. Partition label is an optional attribute. Enter the label of the partition being created and click Accept to continue.

4.3.2.4

The Add new disk summary contains a list of briefly described operations to be performed on partitions (disks).

Add new disk summary

Click Proceed to start creating new partition(s). Click Cancel to cancel the procedure and quit to the main program window.

Before clicking the Proceed button you can use the Back and Next buttons to navigate through the Add New Disk Wizard windows and make changes.

4.3.3

Intel Data Migration Software includes tools for secure destruction of data on an entire hard disk drive, individual partitions, as well as for erasing individual files and eliminating user system activity traces. These tools ensure the security of your confidential information, as well as maintain your privacy when you work with a PC, because they clean-up the evidence showing your actions (records in various system files) that you dont even know about. This could include user names and passwords. Acronis DriveCleanser Acronis DriveCleanser provides secure data destruction on your hard disk. Click the Acronis DriveCleanser item to launch the Acronis DriveCleanser utility.

System clean-up utilities

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Many operating systems do not provide users with secure data destruction tools, so deleted files can be recovered easily by using simple applications. Even a complete disk reformat cannot guarantee you permanent confidential data destruction. Acronis DriveCleanser solves this problem with guaranteed and permanent data destruction on selected hard disks and/or partitions. It allows you to select from a number of data destruction algorithms depending on the importance of your confidential information.

Acronis DriveCleanser

Working with Acronis DriveCleanser

Acronis DriveCleanser allows you to perform the following:

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clean up the selected hard disks or partitions using preset algorithms

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create and execute custom user algorithms of hard disk clean-up. Acronis DriveCleanser is based on a wizard that scripts all hard disk operations, so no data destruction is performed until you execute the complete script. At any stage, you can return to the previous stages to select other disks or partitions or data destruction algorithms. To permanently destroy data on your disk:

Click Tools & Utilities on the toolbar, and select Acronis DriveCleanser Follow the Acronis DriveCleanser wizard steps

4.3.3.2

First, you must select the hard disk partitions where you want to destroy data. To select a partition, click the corresponding rectangle. You will see a red mark in the upper right corner indicating the partition is selected. You can select an entire hard disk or several disks for data destruction. To do this, click the rectangle corresponding to the hard disk (with a device icon, disk number and capacity). You can select several partitions simultaneously located on different hard disks or on several disks.

Data selection

4.3.3.3

Acronis DriveCleanser utilizes a number of the most popular data destruction algorithms. Select the desired algorithm from the drop-down list. Algorithm (writing Passes Record method) Fast 1 Logical zeros (0x00 numbers) to all sectors to shred. 1st pass randomly selected symbols to each byte of each sector, 2 complementary to written during the 1st pass; 3 random symbols again; 4 writing verification. 1st pass 0x01 to all sectors, 2 0x27FFFFFF, 3 random symbol sequences, 4 verification. 1st pass 0x01 to all sectors, 2 0x7FFFFFFF, 3 random symbol sequences, 4 verification. 1st 6th alternate sequences of: 0x00 and 0xFF; 7th 0xAA; i.e. 0x00, 0xFF, 0x00, 0xFF, 0x00, 0xFF, 0xAA. Logical zeros (0x00 numbers) to each byte of each sector for 6th to 4th security level systems. Randomly selected symbols (numbers) to each byte of each sector for 3rd to 1st security level systems. Peter Gutmanns method is very sophisticated. Its based on his theory of hard disk information wiping (see
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Algorithm selection

United States 4 Department of Defense 5220.22-M United States: NAVSO P-5239-26 (RLL) United States: NAVSO P-5239-26 (MFM) German: VSITR Russian: GOST P50739-95 Peter Gutmann 4

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http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html). Bruce Schneier 7 Bruce Schneier offers a seven-pass overwriting method in his Applied Cryptography book. 1st pass 0xFF, 2nd pass 0x00, and then five times with a cryptographically secure pseudo-random sequence.

After you select an algorithm, Acronis DriveCleanser will perform all the actions necessary to destroy the contents of the selected partition or disk. After this is done, you will see a message indicating successful data destruction. The aforementioned algorithms offer various levels of confidential data destruction. Thus the picture you might see on a disk or partition depends on the data destruction algorithm. But what you actually see are disk sectors filled with either zeros or random symbols.

Creating custom algorithms of data destruction

Acronis DriveCleanser gives you the opportunity to create your own algorithms for wiping hard disks. Although the software includes several levels of data destruction, you can choose to create your own. To create a custom algorithm of hard disk wiping, select and click the Custom line from the dropdown list in the Algorithm selection window. Please pay close attention to the load algorithm option in the same drop-down list. Click the Next button to continue.

Loading an algorithm from a file

If you created and saved your algorithm for data destruction while working with Intel Data Migration Software software, you can use it in the following way: In the Select algorithm window, choose Load from file from the drop-down list and select the file with custom data destruction algorithm parameters. By default, such files have a *.alg extension.

4.3.3.4

The Algorithm definition window shows you a template of the future algorithm; the list contains many elements, including the defined algorithm at the previous stage. The window has the following legend: The first column of the list contains the number of passes for a disk; the second contains the type of operation on a disk (there are just two: to write a symbol to disk, "writing", and to verify written, "verification"); the third column contains the pattern of data to be written to disk. The pattern to be written is always a hexadecimal value, for example, a value of this kind: 0x00, 0xAA, or 0xCD, etc. These values are 1 byte long, but they may be up to 512 bytes long. Except for such values, you may enter a random hexadecimal value of any length (up to 512 bytes). Your algorithm may also include one more value for writing that is designated as the complementary value the value that is complementary to the one written to disk during the previous pass.
If the binary value is represented by the 10001010 (0x8A) sequence, then the complementary binary value will be represented by the 01110101 (0x75) sequence.

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The Algorithm definition window offers you the template for the algorithm only. You should define exactly what the software should write to disk to destroy the confidential data according to your algorithm. To do this, click your mouse on the line representing pass #1 and click Next.

4.3.3.5

The Wiping Pass Adjustment window allows you to define the pattern to be written to disk (hexadecimal value). This is what the window control elements mean: You may enter any hexadecimal value into the field under the Write pattern switch to write it to a hard disk during any pass (during the first pass in this case). By setting the switch to Write a random number position, you will first select to write a random value to disk, and specify the length of the random value in bytes in the field below. The U.S. standard provides the writing of random values to each byte of each disk sector during the first pass, so set the switch to Write a random number position and enter 1 into the field. Click the Next button to continue. You will be taken to the algorithm definition window again and will see that the former record (1 write 00) was replaced by 1 write random value, 1 byte. To define the next pass, select the second line of the list and click the Next button. You will see the already-familiar window, but this time there will be more switch positions available: two additional positions will be available for selection:

Wiping pass adjustment

Write complementary to previous pass pattern: As during the second pass of the U.S. standard, each disk sector is filled with hexadecimal values that are complementary to those written during the previous pass. Therefore you should set the switch to the Write complementary to previous pass pattern position and click the Next button. You will be taken to the algorithm definition window again. In this window, the second record looked like this before: write 00, and it was replaced by: write previous step complementary value.

Verify Following the U.S. data destruction standard specification, define third and fourth data overwriting passes. In the same way, you can create any data destruction algorithm to match your security requirements.

4.3.3.6

In the next Saving Custom Algorithm window, you will be able to save the algorithm you have created. This will be useful if you are going to use it again.

Saving custom algorithm

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In order to save your algorithm, you need to give it a filename and define the path in the Select file field or click the Browse button to locate an existing file on the disk. You should also enter a brief description of your algorithm. Each custom algorithm is stored in a separate file with its own name. If you try to write a new algorithm to an already existing file, the existing files contents will be erased.

4.3.3.7

In the Post-wiping Actions window, you can select an action to be performed on the partitions selected for data destruction:

Post-wiping actions

Leave partitions as is just destroy data using the algorithm selected below Delete partition destroy data and delete partition Format destroy data and format partition (default).

4.3.3.8

The summary window contains the list of operations to be performed. Note that after you click the Proceed button, the selected partitions will be wiped permanently. So the button is disabled until you select the Wipe the selected partitions irreversibly check box. Click the Proceed button to start the listed operations. Click the Options button to perform the optional steps. Click the Cancel button to exit the wizard without performing any operations.

Disk wiping summary

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5 Other operations
5.1.1
The operation status window reports about the state of the current operation. The progress bar indicates the level of completion during the performance of the selected operation. In some cases, the operation may take much time to be completed. If this is the case, you may select the Shut down the computer when 'operation' is completed check box. When the operation finishes, Intel Data Migration Software will turn the computer off.

Operation status

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6 Glossary of terms
Bootable media
A physical media (CD, DVD, USB flash drive or other media supported by a machine BIOS as a boot device) that contains stanalone version of <BRAND> <PRODUCT_NAME>. Bootable media is most often used to: recover an operating system that cannot start; access and back up the data that has survived in a corrupted system; deploy an operating system on bare metal; create basic or dynamic volumes on bare metal;

back up sector-by-sector a disk that has an unsupported file system.

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