Many users often have problems associated with some important actions that needed to be performed with the hard drive and flash drive. They have to “shovel” the entire Internet, in search of the optimal application, which would perform the required operations as quickly as possible (and safely), and be easy to use, and be 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).
Why the preference was given to this particular package modification, let's try to figure it out. At the same time, we’ll explain some examples of why this program is needed and how to use the AOMEI Partition Assistant. You can immediately add that ordinary users will really like this application, since even the means of operating systems designed to work with hard drives may seem quite complicated to many.
Acronis software enthusiasts may object to the choice of tools from AOMEI. But they look somewhat more complicated for development by ordinary users, and besides, their use is far from always justified.
AOMEI Partition Assistant program in Russian: a brief announcement
Initially, as you could already guess from the general name of the application, it was developed specifically 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 ordinary optical disks and flash drives, it could be found only in custom assemblies. In the official installation distributions from Microsoft, such tools were not provided at all.
Even though many users quite often use the command line toolkit, which is considered the most efficient and most effective of all that is available on Windows (not to mention the PowerShell console, though), using the DISKPART applet still looks a lot more complicated . Without special knowledge, the average user will not understand it. And if, in addition to everything, it’s wrong to carry out some actions, then it will be difficult to correct the situation. It is for this reason that it is recommended to install the AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Edition version, since it is free and supports the Russian-language interface, and practically does not differ from the professional or server versions in functionality. Of course, you do not need to activate it either (we will talk about actions with other versions a bit later).
Key features of AOMEI Partition Assistant
Despite its initial purpose, as the package developed and improved, it acquired many additional features. But the main advantage is that in any situation, the selected action is performed only after several confirmation steps, and at the very end of setting the necessary options for each specific operation, the "Apply" button is clicked. This avoids accidental actions that could lead to undesirable consequences.
In addition, some basic operations, for example, when choosing some action with partitions (splitting, merging, deleting, alignment of size, etc.) are carried out exclusively during reboot. Some see this as a minus, because Windows tools for the same partition creation do not require a reboot. But many experts note that this is rather a plus.
As for the most interesting tools of any version of the AOMEI Partition Assistant package in Russian, we can especially highlight the following:
- the presence of special "Masters" to perform any operations;
- simplified tools for basic operations with partitions;
- the ability to clone and restore disks and partitions;
- section style conversion;
- conversion of disks to logical partitions and vice versa;
- creation of active boot from regular partitions;
- check of any disks;
- quick file system changes without the need for formatting;
- complete overwriting of sections without the possibility of information recovery;
- transfer of working systems to other media;
- creating bootable media based on the program and integrating its tools into the Windows recovery environment;
- creation of backups, etc.
Of course, many of the features presented to ordinary users will never be particularly useful, and in AOMEI Partition Assistant Home are absent at all. Nevertheless, having them at hand will not hurt.
Download the installer and install the application
As for downloading the installer and installing the program on a computer, initially it is best to turn directly to the official resource of the developer, where you can immediately download the necessary free package.
Installation is also not very difficult and looks standard. The installer itself, if the super administrator and UAC control are not disabled in your system, you need to run it just on behalf of the administrator, after which you just follow the instructions of the installer.
Professional Version Activation Issues
If you need a professional version, you can download it from the beginning or upgrade an existing free modification. AOMEI Partition Assistant Pro license activation key, of course, will have to pay.
It costs a little less than 50 US dollars. But if you understand, most of the functions for ordinary users will be completely unnecessary, and similar hacked modifications with the activation code AOMEI Partition Assistant can be found quite simply on the Internet, although such installation and use will be considered illegal actions. However, when did our people feel embarrassed?
First introduction to the interface
So, the program is installed. Now let's dwell on how to use the AOMEI Partition Assistant.
At first glance at the interface, you will notice that the main window is divided into three main areas. All the sections with the “Wizards” are located at the top left, and just below is a list of the main actions that can be applied to hard drives or removable media. All commands are duplicated in the menu of the upper horizontal panel. The main place is reserved for displaying disks and partitions.
If you select one of them, the menu at the bottom left will change, and only operations for sections will already be presented in it. As mentioned above, these menus are intended exclusively for quick access, and all commands can be selected from the top panel.
Using Automated Wizards
Now briefly dwell on how to use the AOMEI Partition Assistant in terms of simplifying the implementation of certain actions using special “Wizards”. You just need to call up the necessary tools, and then follow the instructions, at certain stages agreeing with the proposed parameters or setting your own. For example, you need to change the file system of a disk or partition.
When you select the appropriate item in the upper left menu, the "Wizard" is launched, and you need to choose the direction of the conversion, and then just click the continue button.
Section Actions
But most users usually have questions about how to use the AOMEI Partition Assistant to partition the disk and perform reverse or additional steps. Everything is simple here!
Select the desired section, go to the section separation section, and then use the slider to set the desired size. Please note that later you do not need to create a simple volume and format it, as provided for in Windows. The created partition will have the same file system as the initial one. But if you choose to resize or create a partition, formatting is indispensable. If we are talking about the hard drive, after confirming the operation, the system will have to be rebooted in any case, but for ordinary flash drives this is not necessary.
If you need to remove the partition, you can immediately note that it works much better than Windows tools, because it allows you to merge partitions without losing data. In addition, formatting the same removable drives with standard Windows tools does not always allow you to get rid of hidden partitions (for example, containing bootloaders).
Extended capabilities
Some additional features look interesting enough. It makes no sense to describe all of them. But here you can separately say a few words about checking the disk.
It can be performed both by the means of the system and through the use of built-in tools of the program itself, allowing to track the appearance of bad sectors with a full scan of the disk surface. The application even supports the command console!
Additional modules
Among the applets that are additionally embedded in the program, one can single out a tool for quickly creating copies of partitions (Free Backup). However, after clicking the corresponding button on the panel, you will have to download it from the official site and install it.
But the result will exceed all expectations. By the way, some of these modules are really not originally built into the program (the same Safely Partition tool), although there are corresponding buttons on the panel. However, if there is a desire, by connecting them to the main program, you can even achieve that it will not be inferior to a professional modification, while remaining free. In other words, from a standard application, you can make an integral package of the class “all in one”.