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Aomei Partition Assistant Professional Edition - Manage and drive partition

Aomei Partition Assistant Professional Edition is a professional application provides users with many different tools to easily manage partitions and hard drives. For example, it allows them to create, resize, move, the right or split partitions without losing data to maximize the use of disk space.

AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Edition lets you manage your hard drives with ease, regardless of your prior experience and, if you know your way around, advanced features like file system converters are at your fingertips. Alternatively, you can choose to be walked through several common operations with the help of step-by-step wizards.

Pros

Eight wizards: Despite its advanced nature, AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Edition comes with eight step-by-step wizards that will walk you through a few common disk operations. Some of the options include making a copy of your disk, extending a partition, creating a Windows To Go disk, and a partition recovery wizard.

Disk copy: The app offers the ultimate backup method -- cloning one drive, so it has the exact same data as another one, down to the very last bit. There is even an option to copy the information in the sectors where there is no visible data -- a great way to save files from a dying or corrupted hard drive.

Windows To Go creator: We were very impressed with the fact that you can create Windows To Go installations with the app; Windows To Go essentially allows you to boot Windows installed on a thumb drive from any PC. Note that at least a 16GB thumb drive is required for this operation.

Cons

Cannot queue operations: Each operation needs to be completed before you can begin the next one. The rule applies even if the two operations are carried out on two separate disks.

Buggy MBR to GPT converter: When we tested the MBR to GPT converter on a thumb drive with no partitions, we discovered a bug where the app won't recognize the converted thumb drive, even though the Windows Disk Manager and later My Computer do. We were able to fix the issue by repartitioning the thumb drive using Disk Utility on Mac OS X.

Bottom Line

Have you just bought a new hard drive for your PC and are looking for the most painless way to migrate your Windows installation and all of your personal data? AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Edition is well-suited to handle your case as well as numerous others.

Some key features:

• Comprehensive partition management
• Resize partitions without losing data
• Extend NTFS partition without restarting computer
• Reallocate free space from partition to another partition
• Combining two partitions together into one
• Splitting one big partition into two partitions smaller
• Create a new partition to different data recovery
• Delete Partition unnecessary and unhelpful
• Delete all data on a partition
• Migrate OS to a solid-state hard drive
• A drive backup
• Backing up a partition to another location
• Convert between MBR and GPT disks without losing data
• Convert NTFS to FAT32 partitions without losing data, and vice versa.
• Create a boot disk without installing AIK or WAIK
• Install Windows 8 for external hard drives or portable flash drive
• Supports multiple languages
• Partition Alignment
• Change the serial number
• Provide guidance wizard Partition Recovery
• Rebuild MBR
• Fully supported sector size hard drive with about 4.096B
• Quick search function will help you easily restore lost or deleted partitions
• Overcoming the problems related to computer and data recovery when the system can not boot
• Hide or unhide partition
• Check bad sectors