I would simply say Thank You. If people would look at their previous download they would notice AOMEI Partition Assistant was the Standard Edition 5.5 This release is the AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional edition 5.5. And on top of that they are offering to us FREE LIFETIME UPGRADES, for only, "now give me a drum roll please, so all the naysayers can realize a good offer when they can't see it", $13.90, and not for just today but from the 17th of July to the 23rd of July!!
This is simply a very good program.
Thank You very much for this offer.

The fonts are too tiny on hi-res monitors because the fonts are "hard-coded." This is a very old programming practice.

The message suggesting the users switch to 96dpi does not improve fontsize when fonts are hard-coded.

This program does not have dpi-aware fonts so fonts are too small on many high-res monitors. There is a message "suggesting" to use 96dpi resolution. I use 200dpi. I will have to change my dpi settings every time just to use AOMEI, and then back again for other Windows 7 apps.

I will remove this and find another app that is dpi-aware instead. Too bad, it looks like a well designed app, otherwise.

Thank you anyway!

Downloaded fine, unziped ok, ran setup did not install, no errors shown. Install process just quit. Using 32 bit windows 7. Tried several downloades and setup, would not iinstall.

Where oh where was this sw when I bought my laptop?! I tried partitioning the drive when I first bought it using EasyBCD (v.?)and it nuked my OS partition which was done in GPT, which unbeknownst to me, EasyBCD didn't like then (might now). Long story short, I ended up buying a new OS because like so many new PC's today, mine didn't come with an OS disk and the recovery partition wouldn't load. Who knows what I did to it but I fried it good. I believe that if I'd had something like this, I could have successfully converted the GPT partition over to NTFS and saved myself a chunk of money and a bunch of aggravation. I've used Aomei's Backupper program for a while and have not had any problems with it. I'll be trying this setup now to see if I cannot finally successfully partition this stupid drive :-(

Long time user of this program. My latest "adventure" was with a failing main hard drive.(based on SMART) The drive was partitioned into C:\ & D:\ and had a boot and restore partition.
This program just works. Windows to metal transfer, no issues. I set up what I wanted transferred to the drive and made sure everything was working OK and walked away for a few hours.
When I came back, shut down the machine, switched the drives and restarted. Stopped and checked the BIOS to be sure the drive was reading correctly, continued boot, no issues.
It was like the old drive was still there as far as every program installed on C:\ & D:\ was concerned.
This program just works.

only very few programs could detect my deleted partition, some of them allowed data saving, but could not restore the partition itself. This program here can undelete partitions, but did not find my partition although nearly nothing was overwritten. Thumb down!
Best from all I tested seems to be active partition recovery (ntfs recovery toolkit), but I only had the demo.
Then kiwiG Data recovery 6.2.2 giveaway, which, however did not restore the partition. not bad either are disk recovery wizard 4.01 giveaway and hdd recovery wizard 4.01 giveaway which seems to be nearly the same program but produced a huge amount of nonsense txt-files

I concur with Karl's review. AOMEI Partition Assistant Pro 5.5 is a very versatile program and a keeper for me. The user interface is laid out well and can be used by just about anyone without having to have much of a learning curve. I installed this program on the last GOTD offer, which wasn't long ago. All I can say to others is give this offer a shot. You won't be disappointed.

Windows to go began with Win8. Previous versions were unable to boot Windows from any sort of external device.

OSX (Mac) has always been able to boot from an external device. It's a remarkably handy feature for all sorts of things, including disaster recovery.

I've had this installed since it was last given away and it looks nice. I used it recently to repartition my system drive and it rendered my system completely inoperable. Luckily I had an image backup to restore from. Shame.

Got stuck in a loop trying to install it. It said I had previous ver. and asked to uninstall - I said yes but it didn't uninstall. Went to Control panel to uninstall but said it was already uninstalled. Tried several times to install answering both yes and no on different tries. Finally went to the folder where it was and found the uninstall.exe and removed it manually. Install went okay then. I've used this in the past and found it a very good program although I had a problem one time with it - unfortunately at my age all I can remember is there was a problem and not what it was. I do recommend this as a long time computer tech though - easy but if you don't know what you are doing partition programs can be dangerous.

Re #19, "would, if the price comes down to a reasonable amount…."

Is $13.95 for lifelong updates for two computers unreasonable?? I think it is quite reasonable.

I have used this several times installing new hard drives. It has been successful every time, no problems Thanks Aomei, and giveaway of the day for an excellent software.
Billy

@GOTD
1 After voting some comments with yes or both "yes" and "now" changed colour to already visited in all comments!!!!

2 As AOMEI Technology kindly answered to comments #2 and #7 but not #5 till now, I had to search again concerning bootable media and this time I found at
http://www.disk-partition.com/features/make-bootable-cd.html bottom
a link to
http://www.disk-partition.com/download.html
and there
http://download.cnet.com/AOMEI-Partition-Assistant-Standard-Edition/3000-18512_4-75118871.html?part=dl-&subj=dl&tag=button

Sort of going around in circles. Unfortunately cnet is one of those sites which instead of granting you access to wanted files forces you to download an installer first. Never tried this any further as its very hard to get rid again of accompanying "goodies".

That's how far I got in my search for bootable medium. But anyhow I don't suppose that the free variant of todays GOTD will lead me any further than above pro version does!

AOMEI Technology, thank you. No answer is an answer, too. And I apologize in advance if I have done anybody wrong. But please, please, please, help me! And I never will repartition any OS harddisk while running this OS (Windows or whatsoever) and you shouldn't do this!

By the way Windows too can repartition but it offers less options, e.g. you can't merge partitions. The latter I needed once in a decade of private use.

One last advice:
Before repartitioning you should defragment your harddisk if it's not defragmented automatically permanently. And to be on the safe side do an image before (I never needed it in this context but that depends much faster and better to have an image available anyhow than to reinstall Windows from scratch and loose all your docs, pics etc. So you have a second chance!)

1) A few years ago, when I first joined GAOTD, the various free partition and disk copy programs were good, but I couldn't get them to use the correct format when I copied an old HD to a new hybrid HD-SSD (Momentus).

Since I'm not a techy, this aspect is still very confusing. Are there good guidelines that will show me how to do it right?

2) Now that I'm learning Win 7 Pro 64-bit, does this free program install as 64-bit or only 32-bit?

Thanks.

Does it handle EXT2,3,4?

I downloaded and installed this one when it was offered a while back. It's excellent. I have used it many times to move the contents of a small hard drive to a new larger one, and it has worked every time with no problems.

In my case, it's installed on one PC, and I have an external USB caddy that holds two SATA drives. Put drive 1 in one slot, drive 2 in the other, start the migration wizard and make sure you select the correct drives (they are listed in the wizard with size, partitions, drive name, and so on) and then select "Apply." The process can take a few hours to complete but in the end, that old 75 gig drive is now copied entirely to a new 500 gig drive. Which boots perfectly as if it was there the entire time.

Highly recommended.

I have tried to use this software from previous giveaways but since the "Windows to Go Creator" requires Windows 8 then that function is useless to me. With other software I have been able to create WinPE discs by having WAIK installed even if it was based upon Windows 7 (I use Windows XP). So I find AOMEI Partition Assistant to be not worth the effort to install.

Have anyone had to actually used this to successfully re-do computer? I tried last year when I went to SSD and the 32 bit version was not successful. I was told on Windows 7 forum that the 32 bit version is not good at this.

Apologize for the inconvenience. AOMEI Technology provides free technical support via email during and after the giveaway period. If you have any problem regarding our product, please email to support@aomeitech.com. We will reply you as soon as possible.

#2 @Karl

We sincerely appreciate your comments and support. As you mentioned, this giveaway is different from the former. We updated multiple-language files and fixed bugs of Windows To Go Creator. Thanks.

#7 @Kenneth

One copy of AOMEI Partition Assistant Pro is available to be installed on 2 computers. All the products you purchased from us support 90 Days Unconditional Money Back Guarantee.

Successfully installed however it shows the message "You need to install the AOMI Dynamic Disk Manager.....etc... The installation file is enclosed in the attached zip file"

I cannot find any other files in the zip file.

Where do I go from here?
Thanks

AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional Edition 5.5 is the best.. Excellent partitioning and copying capabilities... offers the ability to create Windows To Go disks from any flavor of Windows 8.

Generally avoid these type of soft wares-specially if you are Novice and don't know what are you doing?

Like to know the number of computers the upgrade licences can
be installed on.
Is the ninety day money back guarantee the same for the GOTD purchasers
also, or is it different for us.

I have recently been using the Free version for a number of HDD to SSD migrations and AOMEI had been working flawlessly.
However, on my last usage (clone SSD to new SSD) the drive failed to boot after the copy. I eventually had to use Macrium which worked fine...
Tempted to pay for the special offer but after the recent failure not totally sure...

Could GOTD please give full version numbers in the future, or beg the donours to do so. Thank you.

One essential point for partitioning and backup software which best come in one single program is the following:
If you have chosen one brand you are somehow inclined to be stuck with it as otherwise you have to store and find again several live boot media for recovering older backups of different brands in case of need. Whereas if you want to recover older version backups with the latest version of the same software then there is no problem!

I myself are therefore staying with another GOTD brand which even allows to use backups as VHD (virtual hard disk) and whose partitioner comes with a basic imager too.

Another advantage for combined software is that you need only one live boot medium for both partitioning and imaging.

And don't forget that this sort of software must come from trustworthy sources as it needs admin rights and can dig very deep into your system.

Another free possibility is to use any linux live cd/dvd which normally comes with both partitioner and imager in open source quality.

And please don't forget repeated advice to do a backup (by imager) before repartitioning!

Now my question to AOMEI:
What boot-media (ISO file or whatever) are given with AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional Edition 5.5.1. If yes, are they based on LINUX or on WinPE or to be produced yourself with the help of big additional software downloaded from microsoft?

I have used this software from a previous giveaway.

It is excellent.

No need to look elsewhere, this is the one you want.

Free 'alternatives' don't cut it.

Giveaway for aomei partition assistant professional edition? OK, it does is a good chance for us to get one to manage our computer disks for it is free! Everybody like free! But if you don’t successfully grab one, you can go to http://www.disk-partition.com/free-partition-manager.html where you can get an entrance to download a standard edition. It is a kind of freeware. I used to rely on it for my partitions management. Though free of charge, it contains most functions that a partition manager should have. Actually, for us, it can satisfy us very well. Say, the functions we probably usually use are “resize partition”, “move partition”, and “create/delete partition”. Specially, I need not to restart my computer after resizing my d partition and I can extend my partition c with it.

But, as for freshman of this software, you might lose your data due to your wrong operation. Thus, it’s necessary for you to make a backup of your value data. Here, aomei provides us with backupper as you can see in the featured titles. Its standard edition charges nothing either! Except normal backup and restore work, it still clone partitions and disks, check and explore image files (the backup files) and create bootable media (CD/DVD, USB flash drives, etc). Oh! Partition assistant also can make bootable CD. Live a link http://www.backup-utility.com/free-backup-software.html

Another software of aomei is multicloud, a service helping you to manage your many cloud drives, which I haven’t try yet; but I’m going to. This is the site: http://www.multcloud.com

I’m happy with their services, safe, fast and their intuitive interface, so I’d like to share them with you. Hope you’ll find them useful and like them. Anyway, it’s important to find a kind of software which suits yourself! Am I right?

Installed and registered without problems on a WIn 8.1 Pro 64 bit system.

The installation procedure deinstalls the former version.

Attention : this is NOT version 5.5 from the former GiveAway from January 28th, but version 5.5.1!

Today : version 5.5.1 May 6th
Former version : 5.5.0 November 30th 2013

Changed file signature of DyndiskConverter.exe and Ntfs2Fat32.exe, so it makes sense to update, even if it seems to be the same version 5.5

The old reviews are in my case still valid :

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/aomei-partition-pro-5-5/

One of the best partition tools. I'll update my version.

I installed this very same version on the 28th January 2014.

I'm not sure whether I have put it to use in the last 5.5 months. .