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Transferring the system to a new disk

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On program screens, damaged partitions are marked with a red circle with a white cross inside in the
upper left corner. Before you start cloning, you should check such disks for errors using corresponding
OS tools.

13.2

Security

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 because the original disk is only being read (no partitions are changed or

resized) until data transfer is completed.
Nevertheless, we don’t recommend that you delete data from the old disk until you are sure
it is correctly transferred to the new disk, the server boots up from new disk, and all

applications work.

13.3

Executing transfers

13.3.1

Selecting transfer mode

You will see the Select transfer mode window just after the welcome window.

Transfer mode selection

We recommend using automatic mode as it is suitable for most cases. The manual mode can

be helpful if you need to change disk partition layout.
If the program finds two disks, one partitioned and another unpartitioned, it will automatically

recognize the source and destination, so the next two steps will be bypassed.

13.3.2

Selecting the source disk

If the program finds several partitioned disks, it will ask you what is the source (i.e. the

older data disk).