Dell Vostro A90 (Late 2008) - Manual (Page 20)

Quick Setup
20
Running the Files and Settings Transfer
Wizard Without the Operating System
Media
NOTE: Your computer may or may not have
an optical drive. Use an external optical drive
or any external storage device for the
procedures that involve media.
To run the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard
without the Operating System media, you must
create a wizard disk that will allow you to create a
backup image file to removable media.
To create a wizard disk, use your new computer
with Windows XP and perform the following steps:
1 Open the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard:
click Start
→ All Programs→ Accessories→
System Tools → Files and Settings Transfer
Wizard.
2 When the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard
welcome screen appears, click Next.
3 On the Which computer is this? screen, click
New Computer
→ Next.
4 On the Do you have a Windows XP CD?
screen, click I want to create a Wizard Disk
in the following drive
→ Next.
5 Insert the removable media, such as a
writable CD, and click OK.
6 When the disk creation completes and the
Now go to your old computer
message appears, do not click Next.
7 Go to the old computer.
To copy data from the old computer:
1 On the old computer, insert the wizard disk,
and click Start
→ Run.
2 In the Open field on the Run window, browse
to the path for fastwiz (on the appropriate
removable media) and click OK.
3 On the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard
welcome screen, click Next.
4 On the Which computer is this? screen, click
Old Computer
→ Next.
5 On the Select a transfer method screen, click
the transfer method you prefer.
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