Nice , i wanted to see if my partitions are aligned : ) The activation went perfect10x

I too have been having problems with GOTD connection lately. I find if I use Internet Explorer (not Chrome or Firefox) & disable Pop Up blockers I have more success. Try it.

How do I get a workable installer for Win7 SP1 x64? As soon as your setup.exe closes its initial "checking" pop-up, it exits with a "setup.exe has stopped working" pop-up with the following error data:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BEX
Application Name: setup.exe_unknown
Application Version: 6.1.0.0
Application Timestamp: 4ef098d2
Fault Module Name: StackHash_4c0d
Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 00000000
Exception Offset: 80000008
Exception Code: c0000005

Hi all ,I am unable to download todays giveaway,
Please,I need some help. Thanks.

Easy installation. The registration code simply pops up in a dialog box that appears under the main program. Simply cut and paste it when prompted to activate the software. No issues installing on Win 7 Pro.

@WinXP users - How To Make Bootable Media Wizard
To (try to) make Bootable CD (WinPE) w/o installing Win.AIK:
Open Aomei Part.Assistant -> Menu "Wizard" -> "Make Bootable Media Wizard"
New window will prompt you to install Windows Automated Installation Kit (AIK) for WinXPSP2,Server2003,Vista or to point to the file WINPE.WIM , (which i previously extracted from Win.AIK, it's inside the file pe3x86.zip\Windows AIK\Tools\PETools\X86\), but, in my case, it DIDN'T WORK.
It DEMANDED installation of Win.AIK.

Can it handle "hard bad sectors" during migrate/copy of the OS from the old HDD to the new SSD?

Hi everybody. :-)

No problems detected after doing pre-scans and post-scans with Win10 Defender, SAS free, MBAM 2 free, EEK free, GSAM (all definitions updated).
No problems detected by virustotal, metadefender, jotti, virscan (links at the end).
GAOTD setup.exe shows the same false positives found in last days/weeks/months/years: I won't repeat them.
No problems during software download, during its installation and at its startup.
I'm using Windows 10 home x64, DEP always on, custom scaling 150%, resolution 1920x1080, color depth 32bit, refresh rate 60Hz.

Thanks to GAOTD and AOMEI teams!


Scan results on webservices

https://virusscan.jotti.org/it-IT/filescanjob/4cd1n6tgf4
https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/830daba999cbe8666d648ff6a28ac6d123ad97dd540cd9474494b409372249dd/analysis/
http://r.virscan.org/report/9824f1501dbc5f684860a37a9e7dc138
https://www.metadefender.com/#!/results/file/YTE3MDIxNEhrV0FOMGdGZUJrZVcwNEF4S2U/extracted/files

A win10 x64 user, very smooth in getting the s/w running on my pc.
Thanks, AOMEI and GOTD.
I need this type of s/w to migrate my XP OS from an 10-year old note book to another HDD.

donald

"Real quick, can anyone explain to me what is the significance of this partition software I see regularly on here."

You divide up the storage on your device's hard drive by using folders to organize the files. In a nutshell, you can add partitions to your hard drive(s) for the same reason, better organization. Every hard drive has at least one partition, & you can add more. Sometimes another partition is required, for example when you want to add another OS, like a 2nd copy of Windows. By default Windows 10 uses a GPT hard drive with a Boot partition that's formatted FAT32, followed by Microsoft Reserved, Windows, & Recovery partitions, which are all formatted NTFS -- all but the Windows partition are normally hidden. Each partition can be assigned a drive letter in Windows -- they show up as individual drives in Windows or File Explorer. To manage that aspect you use Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management, selecting Disk Management on the left hand side.

Microsoft has been working on improving the file system Windows uses for years, and some changes are starting to appear, for example with Windows 10 you might use Storage Spaces. The main thing to know IMHO however is that things have changed & are changing, so it's best if you don't try to manage Windows 10 disks/partitions using Windows 7 or 8 in a mixed environment.

support[.]microsoft[.]com/en-us/help/12438/windows-10-storage-spaces

You use software like AOMEI Partition Assistant Pro to manage &/or copy partitions. You can do some of this stuff in the Computer Management window I mentioned earlier. Since a hard drive is a fixed size, say 1 TB, if you add up the storage space allocated to each partition, that total can't of course exceed 1 TB. And that's where things get sticky, & why apps like AOMEI Partition Assistant Pro exist... If you have 4 partitions, C, D, E, & F, & you want to give D more storage space, that space has to be taken away from one [or more] of the other partitions, C, E, or F. Likewise if you want to add a partition G, its storage space has to be taken from those existing partitions.

For the moment ignoring those hidden partitions I mentioned earlier that are by default used by Windows 10... Lets say the 1st partition [which I've labeled C] is 200 GB, the 2nd [D] is 150 GB, the 3rd [E] is 400 GB, & the 4th [F] is 250 GB. I want to make D 200 GB --- I've got 3 options... I can shrink C to 150 GB, shift D towards the start of the disk, where C now ends, then enlarge D to absorb the free space I got from shrinking C. Or, I can shrink E or F to free up 50 GB. If I shrink F, then I need to move both E & F towards the end of the drive, so that 50 GB of free space is located at the end of D, which I'll now expand. If I shrink E, then I only have to move E towards the end of the drive.

Now, the 1st step when you shrink a partition is to defrag it, packing all the files towards the beginning of the partition, though it doesn't hurt to defrag before moving a partition either. 2nd, it's always safest to back up that partition before you alter it -- this sort of thing is generally safe but stuff does occasionally happen. Personally, what I do is once I've got the partition(s) backup image(s), I'll delete a partition [or partitions] rather than move them. Using the same example as earlier, after defragging & backing up D, E, & F, I'll delete E & F, expand D to 200 GB, restore the backup of E, so that it starts right where D ends, then restore F in the smaller space that's left. Or I could select a smaller size for E when I restore that backup -- if the backup software I used wouldn't let me restore E to a smaller sized space, I can then use a partitioning app to shrink it, Then restore F.

OK, so why do I do it that way?... PCs [& laptops etc.] can only pass so much data so fast via the bus [the electronic pathway] to one drive -- it's faster to transfer data from one drive to another. A hard drive can only read or write so fast, & that speed goes down if you're reading & writing at the same time. My partition backup images are on another drive -- they pretty much have to be in this case. Restoring a backup I'm moving raw data from one drive to another, which is faster than reading each bit & then writing it somewhere else on the same drive. A plus is that what I'm doing is simpler, so there's less potential for errors.

Finally, with 10 there are added wrinkles. 10 can alter the bios settings making it more difficult to boot to a USB device -- you might have to reset the bios defaults to make it possible. There have been cases where when upgrading to a new build [e.g. the one coming in April], setup reports that the 1st Boot partition is too small. There have also been cases where the old recovery partition was left in place, & a 2nd Recovery partition created. If you move the partitions [so you can make the Boot partition bigger], or delete a duplicate Recovery partition, enlarging the Windows partition to absorb the freed up space, you **might** need to fix the boot menu/loader [the menu's always there -- you just don't always see it], so test [including the Recovery option if you might ever use it] & as necessary take a look at the free EasyBCD from NeoSmart.

Version 6 (obtained here) is my go-to partitioning program. No issues using it, ever, whether from a boot CD or inside Windows.

I'll probably skip this one - most of the changes seem to be centered around Windows 10, which is spyware that I won't install.

If you need to partition a disk occasionally, you can't go wrong with this product from AOMEI.

Aomei, Can you comment on the emulation/or not, of the 32/64 bit operation? Seems it's parked in my Win10Pro64 machine's 32bit folder. Couldn't find discussion in your Websites' info or knowledge base-- THANKS for your gift!

As others reported I have problem with GOTD installer past days. Today I downloaded the software, but I can not install it - error message "The setup files are corrupted. Please obtain a new copy of the program".

I tried to download the software using different computers, each connected to the Internet via different provider, the download link request generated for different e-mail addresses and the results are always the same. Tried on Win 7 pro 64 bit, Win 10 home 32 bit and Win 10 Pro 64 bit

Like the rest of their software, e.g. Backupper, AOMEI Partition Assistant Pro works. And in testing installing AOMEI software has less of an impact on Windows that most of its competition. Do save the registration/activation key that you get -- I have had AOMEI apps lose their activation, but whenever that's happened to me, I was able to re-enter the key & re-activate.

If there's a general downside, it's that like many [most] companies their bootable discs & USB sticks don't work on every device, so please test. Files that are are in use by Windows can't be moved, so many partition operations or tasks, and restoring a backup of that copy of Windows, require booting into another OS. That minimal OS can be stored on the hard drive or put on a bootable disc/USB stick -- if the disc or USB stick won't work, there's a good chance it won't work stored on the hard drive either.

Potential alternatives if/when the bootable media won't work include creating a WinPE USB stick, making sure it works [if not Google for possible fixes documented at microsoft[.]com], then copying the Program Files (x86)\AOMEI Partition Assistant Pro Edition 6.0\x64 folder to the stick... WinPE only gives you a command line, which you'd use to run PartAssist.exe. You also might install the full program in Windows 10 installed to a USB stick or drive. In Windows 10 you can also download a recent Insider build ISO of win10 Enterprise [you'll have to join the Insider Program 1st], & try the Windows To Go wizard in Control Panel after mounting that ISO.

msdn[.]microsoft[.]com/en-us/windows/hardware/commercialize/manufacture/desktop/winpe-intro

Or you could use another app that creates bootable media that works for you, the hard part being you might have to try many programs. I have a cheaper tablet with a 32 bit UEFI bios & Macrium Reflect is the only app I found that works well out-of-the-box when it comes to a bootable USB stick.

Happy Valentine's ALL!

Real quick, can anyone explain to me what is the significance of this partition software I see regularly on here. I have never understood what it does, or why I would want to create them.

Or a quick link to a site that explains partitions and how to use them in an easily understandable way. Thank you!

Anthony

I have version 6.0 installed currently. Is there a concise list of the major differences between the version now available (6.1) ? Such a list might help people decide when to install a newer version.

Thank you AOMEI and GOTD Team for this excellent giveaway. A little tip from me to the Developer: you might consider correcting some spelling errors in the final window that appears after the installation of your program, where it says view paTrition tuToTials (I put capital letters to point you to those errors).

Happy Valentine to everyone

consuella

Dear AOMEI team,

I have version 6.0 of that program, however I have never been able to use it, because it is not high DPI-aware. Either the user interface is way too small, with exceedingly tiny fonts, or the size is regular but the interface is blurry.

Has 6.1 been made high DPI-aware ? If not, is there any way to correct this ? My setup : Windows 7, display set at 150 %, 1620 x 1200, 24" monitor.

I have tried, to no avail, different combinations of the system-wide Windows 7 setting "Use Windows XP-style DPI scaling" (check/uncheck), and of the AOMEI executable Properties / Compatibility setting, "Disable display scaling on high DPI settings" (check/uncheck).

@All

Anybody using a similar setup, and having solved the issue ?

Installed quickly, loved the way it asked for the register code without having to look for it, I used one tutorial and it was very clear. I partitioned one of my backup drives and it was done in seconds. 5 star-Thumbs up

I have the previous version of this--it's incredible. Well worth downloading and installing. I've used it to save customer's hard drives more times than I can recall.

i wish they could include iso image of boot files so that you don't have to download it to create the system recovery disk
i know that microsoft owns those files so maybe use a different boot disk system to start and recover
with this software
great product and dependable

thank you

Dear AOMEI
Installed but did not ask for registration. How do I know if it is registered?

Click, bang, snap... installed W-10 64 and registered with out a problem. Even uninstalled a previous edition with a click. Much appreciated, indeed.

Can I create a portable version?

Run installer, goes straight to the product registered screen.

Disabled antivirus and rebooted, does the same thing.

Always seems to happen on the GAOTDs I really want!

One of my favorite partition managers, been using it for years. Plenty of options and easy to use. No fuss installation on my W 8.1. Highly recommended, thanks!

Pleased to report, that a ReBoot fixed my problems.

AOMEI Partition Assistant Pro 6.1

Vs.

EaseUs Partition Master 10.2 Professional Edition

The answers gonna be Awesome !!!

I downloaded the file zip, extracted it. But I can't uninstall. It keep telling me that I just activated this software succcessfully, but I even didn't install it. So the setup just show a "Successfully activated" dialog instead of installing the software.

Please help!

Downloaded OK, Installed OK, Would not open the program, message stated. "Loaded Driver failed, Please re install" no difference tried a few times, then gave up.

Have had much joy of Aomeis products. Last for about 1 month ago when it was their BackUp Pro program that was the Giveaway. I bought the license offered for lifetime, for USD. 19.95 like today, when it is their partitioning program.
But, but, price after VAT ends up on Usd 25.00. But it is value for money anyway.
No I am not employed by the company, or have special interests, i am just a satisfied customer.