Many users often have problems related to some important actions that needed to be performed with the hard drive and flash drive. You have to, as they say, “shovel” the entire Internet in search of the optimal application, which would perform the required operations as quickly (and safely), and would be easy to use, and free. As a result, the choice often falls on a software product called AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Edition, despite the fact that Home, Pro and Server versions are offered for download and installation (there is even a portable version).
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Let's try to figure out why preference was given to this particular modification of the package. At the same time, we’ll use some examples to explain why this program is needed and how to use AOMEI Partition Assistant. We can immediately add that ordinary users will really like this application, since even operating system tools designed for working with hard drives may seem quite complicated to many.
Adherents of Acronis software products may object to the choice of tools from AOMEI. But they look somewhat more difficult for ordinary users to master, and besides, their use is not always justified.
AOMEI Partition Assistant program in Russian: brief announcement
Initially, as you might have guessed from the general name of the application, it was developed precisely as a tool for performing operations to split, merge or delete existing hard disk partitions, which was very often required when installing operating systems for which similar utilities that could even be used when starting from regular optical disks and flash drives, it could only be found in custom builds. The official installation distributions from Microsoft did not provide such tools at all.
Even though many users quite often use the command line tool, which is considered the most effective and most efficient of all that is available in Windows (not to mention, however, the PowerShell console), using the DISKPART applet still looks much more complicated . Without special knowledge, the average user will not understand it. And if, in addition to everything, you perform some actions incorrectly, then it will be quite difficult to correct the situation. It is for this reason that it is recommended to install the AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Edition, since it is free and supports a Russian-language interface, and in terms of functionality it is practically no different from the professional or server modifications. Of course, you don’t need to activate it either (actions with other versions will be discussed a little later).
Hello! I have a simple question for you, there are two hard drives almost identical in size: the first drive is already 7 years old and it is terribly slow, but Windows 8.1 is installed on it, and the second hard drive is completely new. How can you copy all the information along with the operating system from one hard drive to another and so that after copying Windows 8.1 boots on the new drive? If possible, tell me the easiest and free way.
Copying Hard Drives Using AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Edition
Hello friends! In other words, you need to create an exact copy of one hard drive on another. There are many ways to perform such a simple operation. In today's article I will offer you the easiest way to copy information from one HDD to another using the AOMEI Partition Assistant program. After copying, the operating system will start on another hard drive.
So, let's look at the disk management of my computer.
My system unit has two hard drives.
Disk 0 - an old 400 GB hard drive with Windows 8.1 installed on the drive (C:), there is also another partition with user data on the drive(D:) . Both partitions need to be copied to a new hard drive.Windows 8.1 should booton a new hard drive.
Disc 1 - new hard drive capacity 500 GB partition, has one partition(E:), during the copying process all files on this partition will be deleted.
In the main window select Master-->Disc Copy Wizard.
Check the box “Quickly copy disk” and click “Next”.
Select the source disk from which we want to copy the operating system.
Left-click on the 400 GB hard drive and click “Next”.
Select the target disk to which we want to copy the operating system.
In this window, the program shows us what the hard drive will look like after transferring the operating system to it. Since our source disk less than target by 100 GB, then after copying to the HDD there will be unallocated space of almost 100 GB.
The AOMEI Partition Assistant program offers us to automatically distribute the unallocated space equally between two future partitions. Mark the item "Fitting partitions of the entire disk"
Both sections have increased in volume.
The program offers us, in order to avoid errors during loading, immediately after completing the copying process, turn off the computer and disconnect the old hard drive, in this case the boot will occur from the new hard drive.
I want to say that if you don’t do this, then nothing bad will happen, both HDDs will have independent bootloaders and you can boot (after the copying process) from any hard drive.
Click on the “Apply” button.
“Go.”
The computer restarts.
AOMEI Partition copies all information from one hard drive to another in the boot environment.
The copying process can be seen megabyte by megabyte.
When the copying process is complete, the computer restarts.
We enter the computer boot menu and select boot from the new hard drive.
The Windows 8.1 operating system loads.
Let's look at disk management.
The copied Windows 8.1 is located on the (C:) drive of the new 500 GB hard drive.
The old 400 GB hard drive can be detached.
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Hi all! Today we’ll talk to you about how you can increase the size of the C drive in Windows 7-8-10 using a free program in Russian called AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Edition.
The author of the article dares to suggest that many of you still continue to use hacked Acronis products for these purposes. Guys, why is this necessary? After all, there is a worthy free alternative.
As you can see, everything is within normal limits. But in life there are times when the free space is completely “clogged”, and then terrible brakes on the computer begin. Also, many programs may simply not start.
What can you advise in this case? The first thing you should try is to install a small one and perform emergency maintenance on your iron friend.
After this, the full disk should unload a little. Therefore, it's time to download the free AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Edition program from the link from the official website:
It’s worth saying right away that this is a very powerful and professional application focused on working with hard drives and their partitions. It has a lot of different functions that give the user great options.
But let's not praise too much in advance, so as not to jinx it. So, let's move on to the installation process. To do this, run the just downloaded file:
The further course of events is standard and does not raise any questions:
Once the files are copied, open the program. Now, in order to increase the size of the system drive C, you need to do the following simple manipulation.
The first thing you need to do is see which other partition you can take free space from. In our case, this is the second drive D:
Therefore, we move the cursor over it and press the right mouse button. In the context menu that opens, select “Resize partition.” Then a window will open in which you can use a special slider to select the free space we need so much:
At this step, click “OK” at the bottom and then “Apply”:
The program will calculate the required time for the operation and may suggest restarting the computer:
Well, we agree with this requirement and just wait for the Windows operating system to restart. After this, you need to launch AOMEI Partition Assistant again:
And right-click on system drive C. In the menu we are already familiar with, this time select the “Merge partitions” item:
In the next dialog box, check the box next to unallocated space and click the "OK" button:
Well, as expected, we’ll finish this whole thing with the “Apply” option:
After this, the application will again ask you to restart the PC and the job will be done. As you can see for yourself, there is nothing difficult in increasing the size of the C drive in Windows 7-8-10 using AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Edition.
And the most important thing that must be said is that all of the above actions do not delete information on the computer. Agree that this is a very important point that constantly makes users nervous.
It is also worth noting that these are not all useful functions of the program. Therefore, in upcoming articles we will talk about it in more detail. So now let me take my leave, bye everyone. And in conclusion, watch a very interesting video.
Hello everyone, today I want to tell you how to install Aomei Partition Assistant. We have already used it with you in How to convert GPT to MBR in Windows using Aomei Partition Assistant, but I did not tell you how to install it.
Aomei Partition Assistant is a powerful program for working with hard drives and administering partitions for PCs and workstations. The program will answer questions such as: “How to resize a partition or merge partitions without losing data? How to increase computer performance?”
In addition, PA includes AOMEI Dynamic Disk Manager Pro (DDM), which means it has the ability to manage dynamic disk volume.
Description of AOMEI Partition Assistant features
It is worth noting that this program includes support for DDM, which means that you can manage dynamic disk volumes, which is of course a big plus. I would like to note the easy-to-use user interface, it is easy to understand and extremely convenient to navigate, I think you will not have any difficulties with it
Partition Assistant allows you to recover lost or deleted hard drive partitions in just a few steps. There is a partition alignment mode, thereby reading the disk will occur at a faster speed, especially for SSDs. It is possible to create bootable CDs, you can overwrite MBR, and support GPT to MBR conversion without data loss.
First, let's download Aomei Partition Assistant 5.6.3. Launch it, select the language in the first window of the wizard and click OK.
accept the license agreement and click next
Specify the program installation directory
Set the creation checkboxes with a shortcut as you like
on and click Install.
After successful installation, click Finish and the program will open.
This is how easy it is to install Aomei Partition Assistant. In the next article I will tell you in more detail about all the features of the program.