Aomei Partition Assistant Free Alternative

[Osias Baptist]

Partition Magic is a computer program for hard disk drive partitioning. It was originally made by PowerQuest Corporation, but acquired by Symantec on December 5, 2003. PartitionMagic 8.0.5 was released under Symantec and the software name was changed to Norton PartitionMagic. That was also the last release.

This software is capable of resizing NTFS, FAT16 or FAT32 partitions without data loss, copying partition or moving partitions to other drive or disks. It also allows you to convert between FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS, and modify the cluster size of FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS file systems. But for ext2 and ext3 partitions, it has limited support.

There is countless disk partition software for Windows PC that works similarly with Norton PartitionMagic. Considering the compatibility and functions, I would like to recommend a free partition manager called AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard. This freeware works well on 32-bit/64-bitWindows 10/8/7 and Windows XP/Vista (all editions).

All in all, AOMEI Partition Assistant Server is an all-in-one utility - it is a partition manager, disk tool, OS migration, and cloning software. Definitely a great alternative to Symantec PartitionMagic. You can download the freeware and have a try now!

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 have dual booted system Ubuntu 16.04 and Windows 8 with Grub2. I plan to convert MBR to GPT. I was looking at AOMEI Partition Assistantand just need to know whether it will preserve my dual boot. Also if I have any other better alternatives?

The bulk of your OS installations should be fine after the conversion, providing the software does what it should; HOWEVER, boot loaders are different for MBR and GPT disks. I'm not familiar with AOMEI's partition table conversion tools, but assuming it converts only the partition table, the boot loader differences mean that your disk will be rendered unbootable after the conversion. If AOMEI does something to boot loaders, the disk might end up booting in one or both OSes, but this is really the tricky part of the conversion, so even if the tool claims to handle it, I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't work.

It is possible to do an MBR-to-GPT conversion and keep your OS(es) bootable, but extra steps are likely to be required. For Windows, see this page for details. For Ubuntu, the easiest approach may be to use Boot Repair. Note, however, that Windows will boot from a GPT disk only if your computer has an Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) firmware (or Unified EFI, which is EFI 2.x). Most computers introduced since mid-2011 have EFIs, so if your computer is less than about five years old, you should be OK on that score. If your computer is older than that, though, chances are you won't get Windows booting after such a conversion -- at least, not easily. If your computer is in the transition period, research its capabilities carefully.

Even if your computer has an EFI, you should heed the wisdom of the old saying, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." Converting from MBR to GPT (and therefore from BIOS-mode to EFI-mode booting) is risky; about a million different things can go wrong in such a conversion, resulting in anything from a few minutes' extra effort to the total and catastrophic loss of all data on your computer. The worst of these consequences are unlikely, but if you don't need to make this conversion, why risk it? Your question provides no motivation for making the change, so that question isn't really rhetorical -- you may have a valid motivation that you haven't described. If you're doing this on a whim or because you've heard GPT is "better" than MBR, though, I strongly advise against such a conversion. (GPT does have advantages over MBR, but those advantages are not worth risking the hassle of such a conversion in most cases.)

The existing partitions itself should be preserved, but you have to pay attention to the first and the last partition on the drive. If the first partition starts in a sector lower then 34 you will loose data on the partition (That will mostly not be the case but you have to check it before converting).

You need at least 34 sectors free space at the very end of the disk for the backup of the GPT-partition-table. If the last partition on the drive ends in that area you have to resize the partition first, otherwise the end of this partition will be overwritten by the GPT-partition-table-backup.

Note that some of the above (eg. GPTGen), appear to have some caveats to usage which you should make sure are met before starting, since otherwise it may cause your device to fail to boot: "Some implementations of GPT (e.g. Windows) require certain partitions to be present on the disk (e.g. an EFI boot partition). Gptgen doesn't create these partitions, it can only convert the existing partition table's contents. To create such partitions, use a GPT-ready partition manager such as parted."

I haven't tried any of the tools above myself, so if someone finds that one of them is indeed capable of converting MBR to GPT -- and especially if it can do so with minimal usage of other tools and commands -- please let us know in the comments.

Regarding AOMEI, see here for my comment on it. It worked fine for cloning from an MBR ssd to a GPT ssd, but it doesn't have a "convert same drive" function, so I couldn't use it for my second computer.

P.S. There is also Niubi Partition Editor, however it looks very similar to MiniTool Partition Wizard, so I suspect it might be a clone of it. (even if not, it is likely to have the same restriction where you have to pay to unlock its MBR->GPT disk-conversion)

AOMEI should convert MBR to GPT with just a few clicks, without data loss. Other methods such as DISKPART would erase data. Either way, I'd recommend backing up important data before making such a change.

Aomei Partition Assistant can be used to create Windows To Go, Hasleo WinToUSB is the world's first third-party tool that can be used to create Windows To Go, it is the best alternative to Windows To Go Creator built into Aomei Partition Assistant.

Aomei Partition Assistant is a popular free disk partition tools for Windows users, its main purpose is to help users to manage the space in their hard disk drive, such as creating, deleting, formatting partitions or moving, re-sizing partitions, and you can also use it to clone disks or partitions. The Windows To Go Creator built into Aomei Partition Assistant is a tool that can help users install and run Windows on a USB drive, it functions like Microsoft's Windows To Go Creator Wizard.

To be honest, the Windows To Go Creator built into Aomei Partition Assistant is a great Windows To Go creation tool, it has a nice graphical interface and a high success rate, but it has the following shortcomings:The performance of creating Windows To Go from an ISO file is relatively low.The feature of cloning existing Windows to a USB drive as Windows To Go is only available in the paid version and the performance is poor.In some cases, Aomei Partition Assistant cannot successfully create Windows, and the program only prompts "Failed to create Windows ToGO" without any other information to help users diagnose the problem.

Cannot select the Windows edition when creating Windows To Go from an ISO file.You cannot encrypt the Windows TO Go USB drive with BitLocker to protect your data.Creating Windows installation USB drives and bootable WinPE USB drives is not supported.

Step 2. Click "Select installation source", then click "Browse image file" and select the Windows 8 installation ISO file from the open dialog box as installation source, or choose a CD/DVD drive with a Windows 8 installation DVD inserted as the installation source.

Step 4. Click "Select destination drive" and select the destination drive from the pop-up drive list. If the drive is not correctly recognized by Hasleo WinToUSB, you can click the button for the program to recognize the drive.

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