Dell Migrate User's Guide

Migrate multiple accounts

About this task

When multiple Windows user accounts are present on the old PC, Data Assistant prompts you to migrate all the accounts before erasing files and settings. This is to ensure that you do not lose your user accounts as a result of the erase process. If you do not need these user accounts, click Proceed to move ahead with the migration process.

If you have multiple user accounts, it is recommended to migrate all the user accounts before starting the erase process.

1. Perform the following steps to assign administrator rights to other users:
   1. On your new PC, click Start > Settings > Accounts to open the user accounts on the PC.

      

   2. Click Other users, and in the right pane, select the user, and click Change account type.
   3. In Change account type list, select Administrator, and click OK.
      NOTE: If the user is already an administrator, select the next user account.

      

      The user is assigned administrator rights.

      

2. Perform the following steps to switch user account and proceed with migration:
   1. Right-click Start or press Win+X on the keyboard, and go to Shut down or sign out, and then click Sign out. Sign in to the other user account. For example, Linda M.

      

   2. Launch Dell Data Assistant.exe from the newly logged in account by searching in Windows search or by downloading Dell Data Assistant from www.dell.com/DataAssistant.
   3. Click Migrate from this PC.

      

   4. Log in or create the corresponding user account on your new PC. For example, if your user account was Linda M on the old PC, you should log in to or create an account that is named Linda M on your new PC. Connect both the old and the new PCs, and migrate the user accounts from the old PC to the new PC using Let me choose and select directory of the current user in C:\Users\<user name>, and also selecting the desired settings. For more information about connecting both the old and the new PCs, see Migrate and erase data from old PC.

      

      NOTE: You must sign in to each user account on the old and the new PC, and create multiple accounts on the new PC.

      Also, if the account names on both the old and the new PCs do not match, for example, if the account name on the old PC is Linda M and the account name on the new PC is Alice, a warning is displayed, but you can choose to proceed if you know that you are migrating from the right account on the old PC to the right account on the new PC.