Is Aomei Partition Assistant Really Free

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Dorothy Gouldie

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Aug 3, 2024, 11:47:04 AM8/3/24

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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.

It is very strange " 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" Please check the size and send us the screenshot to confirm the problem. Waiting for your reply.

I am having the same problem. I tried to clone a 4TB HDD into an 8TB HDD, data disk, no OS or anything. My first attemp failed overnight without any error. But I noticed my main SSD went from 360 GB used to 850 GB. The problem was the log file. I'm running a 2nd attemp (already 8 hrs on it) and the current log file is at 54Gb and growing. What is the problem? Why does a log file goes that large?

This is today, so after 17 hrs (it get's slower to a crowl) the log file grew from 55Gb to 62Gb while only the progress went from 1.15Tb to 1.79 Tb. At this rate, I will get another huge file once (and IF) the software reach the 3.6 TB clone.

Sorry, no. The file filled up my main HDD, it worked for 30 min more and shut down losing all progress. I started receiving warnings about the OS disk full, then flickering screen and finally system shut down. I did try to open the file before erasing it but there was no software able to open due the size, I tried, word, notepad wordpad, Chrome, IE. I'm trying a different software now, I'm afraid your backupper would do the same and I already wasted a week trying to clone. I love your partition assistant, but it fail me this time for a large disk.

I was using Windows 10 and Ubuntu 18.04 dual boot. And yesterday I was trying to create more space in Ubuntu partition. So, I tried to shrink space from the Windows partition using Windows disk management tool. But, it allowed me to shrink only 8 GB, and I needed more space (30GB). So, I used AOMEI partition assistant to shrink it. It went on a preOS mode and then after booting to Windows again I saw that it the required created 30GB space but formatted my Ubuntu partition too.

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Oops, I found a silly mistake of mine. After shrinking through AOMEI I foolishly converted my EFI system partition from FAT32 to NTFS (using AOMEI). I converted it back again. And now I am able to boot to Windows normally, but not able to boot to Ubuntu, not even using the rEFInd rescue disk. Now, that's probably because of corruption in my linux-swap partition, but I am not sure.

Can you open Nautilus? If so, can you see the Windows 10 drives on the "Other Locations" tab? If you can see those drives, be sure to backup all your important data from those drives before you try something risky.

This will display the contents of EFI folder in your EFI System partition. Delete the ubuntu folder from here and also set Windows boot manager to boot Windows itself. To do so type following commands:

In case you cannot boot windows using the refind usb drive, Then go to the efi shell using the refind usb drive and press esc when the shell starts to skip and startup script. Then, type bcfg boot dump to display all the efi entries in your firmware. Look at the entries and note their numbers. Delete any Ubuntu related entry from here by typing bcfg boot rm XX.

The detection / classification is correct. Detection of potentially unwanted applications is optional and is not enabled without user's consent. For more information about what PUAs are, please read .

I had to use the 2nd tool for WIndows 10 since Microsoft's built in tool is broken and will block updates for the recovery partition due to a bug in WIndows 10 (the entire world has that bug in WIndows 10), the built in partition assistant can't update the recovery partition unless it is in a certain order of where the ? drive is

Nope the shadowcopy is only created when doing a backup using the Win 7 classic backup program built into Windows w/ the back up over USB 2.0 to a drive I plug in, and the exclusions are not working as I get about 5 to 8 per day of the same 3 items, there are the same 3 over and over (2 are 2 different versions of the installer for AOMEI Partition Assistant, the 3rd is part of the NirSoft Launcher)

1, The detection exclusion that you created to exclude a specific file / detection
2, The appropriate record from the Detections log related to the detection that occurred with the exclusion in place.

The 2 installers for AOMEI Partition Assistant are in the downloads folder and the older one in the recycle bin, and the 3rd one NIrsoft launcher is in the downloads folder and they have exclusions but I still get notifications that real time scanner picked them up ignoring the exclusion.

Also can you report the bug to the developers as the detections that show in the notifications are not showing in the logs correctly at all, as I see about 20 missing (I have not change the logs and they are set to the default log cleaning)

I don't understand what you mean by "move back". If you are referring to this topic location, it's correct. This forum is about both malware and false positives. Anyways, none of the files detected on your machine was a false positive and all were correct detections and classifications.

This form was moved to the wrong form, and 100% of them are false positives, the free version of the software that I know of does not have that detected part and it is a single 1 time purchase. The software has to be used since Microsoft's built in tool for disk partition has a bug where it can't resize the recovery environment in some configurations which blocks a security update released earlier this year from being install that blocks a bitlocker bypass.

It took about 4 times of telling and adding it to the ignored for it to be ignored (the pop ups started missing the add to ignore list since they already were but that was being ignored due to a bug in real time scanner)

Many Nirsoft tools can be exploited for malicious purpose in the wrong hands which is why they may be detected as potentially unsafe applications which are not detected by default. The application detected as potentially unwanted meets the criteria for PUA detection ( ) which is optional and enabled only with user's consent. Our experts on detection analyze applications deeply prior to categorizing them as PUA/PUsA so there was a good reason for the PUA detection.

The disk partition software is 100% a false positive as the part it is picking up is part of the paid for one and I had it just fine on the machine for over a year with not being flagged by ESET to 15+ messages a day about the same file even after telling it to ignore it and exclude it.

Some time back, one of the AOMEI marketing folks contacted me and asked that I review the free edition of theirdisk partition management software, available for Windows users. At first I was a little skeptical. Why wouldanyone need a tool other than GParted to manage their disks? But then, not everyoneis a Linux user.

With the global audience in mind, I decided to try this tool and see whether it can fill the gap between thesomewhat rudimentary utility natively available in Windows and other, more nerdy methods of booting into a liveLinux session and slicing and dicing the disks from yonder. Here be a review of AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Edition 5.5.After me.

The setup is very simple. Just follow the wizard. Once this step is complete, you can launch the PartitionAssistant, and it will open into a pretty tidy GUI, with quite a few more options than just basic partitioning.

To see how well the program copes with the challenges of disk management, I hooked in a USB drive, containing abunch of EXT4-formatted partitions, and a small USB thumb drive, formatted with FAT32. You need to reload theview to list the new devices.

Before you do any resize or formatting operations, you can check partitions for integrity and bad sectors. Thiscan be useful if you're not really sure about your storage devices, or just to make sure the expected operationought to complete successfully.

But let's do some real stuff. In my test, I deleted one of the partitions on the external My Passport device,purposefully not the first nor the last, and then created a new one in its place. Partition Assistant supportsLinux filesystems too, but only Ext2/3.

Nothing will happen until you Apply changes, similar to GParted. You can also assign drive letters if you want.I decided not to do this, and yet, the moment the operation completed, the new drive was mounted and lettered.