Aomei Partition Assistant Move Partition

[Brayan Jacobsen]

Inthis article, we will share you with a safe and easy way to move partition in Windows 11, 10, 8, 7. Then you can move a partition to the left or right, front or end of the disk without losing data.

Therefore, you need to move partition, which is in the way of the target partition and the unallocated space, to the left side so that the unallocated space can be moved to the right side of the aim partition and extend it successfully.

Since Disk Management does not offer such an option to move any partition, it is necessary to use some third-party software like AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional. This software works well on Windows 11/10/8/7 and Windows XP/Vista (either 32-bit and 64-bit). It has the "Move Partition" feature to help users reset the location of a given partition even though the drive has enabled Bitlocker encryption.

Supposing that you have a C partition, D partition, and an unallocated space on your Disk 1, and you want to enlarge partition C with the unallocated space. Here, you can follow the steps to first move partition D to the end of the disk so as to make the unallocated space directly after C partition. After that, smoothly extend C partition by adding that unallocated space in.

1. Install and run AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional. Choose the partition you want to move (take D partition as an example, and you can see there's an unallocated space located after D partition), right-click it, and then click "Resize/Move Partition".

3. As you can see from the following screenshot, the partition D has been moved to the right side of the unallocated space. And the unallocated space has been moved directly after C partition. Click the "Apply" on the toolbar to commit the operation.

After moving the partition successfully, you can extend the partition you plan with the feature "Resize/Move Partition". For example, you need to expand C, you can just right-click the C partition and select "Resize/Move Partition", drag the bar to the right side to extend it with the unallocated space.

With the help of AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional, you can move partition easily and safely. This feature is usually used to move a partition forward or backward in order to resize/expand partitions with available free space.

Besides, there are many other useful functions in Partition Assistant. You can merge adjacent and non-adjacent unallocated space into another partition via "Merge Partition" feature. If there is no unallocated space on the disk, you can also directly assign some free space from one partition to another by using the "Allocate Free Space" function. More advanced functions that Disk Management does not have are also available in this powerful partition manager program, such as cloning partition, transferring OS to SSD, converting MBR and GPT without deleting partitions, cloning hard disk, etc.

A: First, there is no adjacent unallocated space. So please make sure there is unallocated space adjacent. Second, the partition is BitLocker encrypted. So please decrypt the drive first.

There is this "Recovery Partition" between (C:) and (D:) Drive due to which I'm unable to add unallocated space to (C:) drive ("Extend Volume" option being grayed-out) and I'm not sure whether it is safe to remove that Recovery Partition.

Moreover, even if I do remove that "Recovery Partition", I do not want to copy files from (D:) drive to another new drive for formatting the (D:) drive and deleting that drive because I don't know whether moving these files will break my computer or not.

Given that you seemingly have system files on the D: partition, and you don't know exactly what and where they were set to be there, I would advise you to leave the D: partition up and running and not mess with what's on it (let's say a program runs from the D: partition, how will it now know to run from the C: partition?)

I'd already defragged my partition about 6 times, to no avail. I scanned the disk twice, restarting to "fix" whatever it wanted to both times, then on the third scan it would tell me chkdsk was basically broken because "snapshots were disabled" before giving me the blue... ":(" of death (Stop code: CRITICAL PROCESS DIED). That should have been an indicator that this software could break something, but I resized the partition anyways. It ran in PreOS mode and resized the partition successfully. Then it restarted. Well, at least there was a "re." Haven't really gotten a "start" since then.

Now, my device is unable to boot into Windows 10- at least, properly. After using the recovery environment some, I managed to get a command prompt running on boot- besides the recovery CMD. The logon screen should be there, but it isn't. Everything but explorer.exe is running, and running that ends in it closing immediately. I got help from someone experienced, and at this point they're rather baffled, because we've tried every conceivable repair option and non-standard loophole/bypass to get into Windows, and nothing is working. The operating system reports booting successfully (in srttrail.txt), but tools such as bcdrebuild do not acknowledge its existence.

I thought since AOMEI helped me get into this fine mess to begin with, maybe it had a clue on how to get me out. Yes, I've tried automatic repair, system repair, rebuildbcd, sfc /scannow, chkdsk /f, etc., etc., etc. And I'm not paying to get this fixed. All I want is my programs in a working Windows installation, and my files not to be wiped. I was about to move them out anyways to move my WIndows installation to a smaller SSD alongside Ubuntu. It would be nice to fix the boot, but if I can move my programs over to a clean install for free, that would be good enough.

Is there an easy way to do this? I've read about third party partition tools such as AOMEI Partition Assistant and Paragon Partition Manager; and I've used Gparted in the past but I do not want to power down the VM to accomplish this. I also want the move to be seamless so DFS isn't affected and is unaware of the change.

What you can do is to use something like Robocopy to copy the data with the permissions from one volume to the other. Then coordinate/schedule a cutover. When you perform the cutover you can simply unshare the folders on the source volume and reshare them on the destination volume. To make that simpler you can export the shared folders from the registry, edit the reg file accordingly for the new location, and import the edited reg file. That will make the share changes for you, including the share permissions.

I wanted to shrink more my windows partition into at least 100 GB more and add that to the current unallocated 107.42 GB space. My main goal is to extend /dev/sda8(main ubuntu partition) to use the unallocated space. I watched this video Extend Ubuntu Disk Volume with GParted after Resizing Hard Drive, but I cant move/resize /dev/sda8 to the left side of unalloc or move unalloc to the right side of /dev/sda8. How can I get pass through the left of ext4, grub2core, and linux-swap.

2) In that, select the unallocated space, right click-merge. A dialog box appears to which partition you must merge this unallocated space. Select the last partition, i.e the one which you want to expand.

(Now here's the thing... I've done this to extend my last windows ntfs partition with unallocated spaces made from multiple windows partitions lying before it. In your case, if AOMEI detects your linux partitions, then you might be able to excecute this operation successfully. If everything goes well, then another dialog box appears asking how to do the operation. Here, the first option,(default) through win PE environment has to be selected. Then proceed. Upon next win startup, the operation commences.)

Delete the recovery partition with diskpart (step 4-h in @pfarrell link), extend the C: partition to include all available disk space, then recreate the recovery partition following step 5 in @pfarrell link.

Hi @pfarrell I am not the one asking, in-fact I have posted the command to remove the partition multiple times on here due to a bad KB, I was simply offering the OP a direct answer to their question on how they can move it (of course, if they want to).

Thank you all for your responses. I deleted the Recovery partitions (2x) which then placed the unallocated space adjacent to C:. I extended C: successfully. I did create a small WinRecovery partiion as well.

I started doing a partion copies between drives that were not C but I saw that my C drive was rapidly losing space and writing constantly during the operation. I had to cancel the par copy hours after seeing that my C drive will go to 0 no matter how many programs and files I delete.

I snooped the files and saw that the ampa(#).log files under log in the Aomei Partion Assistant Pro Edition 6.6 directory under Program Files (x86) were taking up 80Gb out of my C drive ssd. I only had around 20 gb free when I started the Operation but kept deleting files to stop it from hitting 0 again. AOMEI just kept eating space.

I am in the process of moving partition for an external hard drive using the AOMEI Partition Assistant standard edition. After one day of process, a warning popped up and it is about the c drive being full. I find that the log file name "ampa35.log" located inside the log folder of AOMEI Partition Assistant is taking up a lot of space, it has taken 30GB of space and that's what make my hard drive full. The process of moving the partition stopped as well possibly due to lack of space in c drive.

I removed some files in my c drive but the log file keeps getting bigger and bigger and it will eventually fill up the hard drive. Please help and I need a solution for this case, I don't wanna risk cancelling the process and ended up losing all my data in my external drive.

I'm a first time user of AOMEI software and my purpose is to transfer a partition from one drive to another. While the transfer is running, a log file named ampa3.txt, located at C:\Program Files (x86)\AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Edition 5.5\log, is running as large as 100GB around the half of the operation and it could even saturate my OS drive.

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