Many users often have problems with some important actions that needed to be performed with hard disk and a USB flash drive. We have to, as they say, “shovel” the entire Internet in search of the optimal application that would perform the required operations as quickly as possible (and safely), and was easy to use and 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).

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Let's try to figure out why this particular modification of the package was preferred. At the same time, with some examples, we will explain what this program is for and how to use AOMEI Partition Assistant. Immediately, we can add that ordinary users will really like this application, since even the tools of operating systems designed to work with hard drives may seem quite complicated to many.

Adherents software products Acronis may object to the choice of the AOMEI toolkit. But they look a little more difficult for ordinary users to master, and besides, their use is not always justified.

AOMEI Partition Assistant in Russian: a short announcement

Initially, as you might have guessed from the general name of the application, it was developed precisely as a means for performing operations on splitting, merging or deleting existing partitions. hard disk, which was very often required when installing operating systems, for which similar utilities, which could be used even when starting from ordinary optical disks and flash drives, could only be found in custom assemblies. The official installation distributions from Microsoft did not provide such tools at all.

Even though many users quite often use the toolkit command line Considered to be the most powerful and most efficient Windows solution (not to mention the PowerShell console), using the DISKPART applet still looks a lot more complicated. An ordinary user cannot deal with it without special knowledge. And if, in addition to everything, some actions are performed incorrectly, then it will be quite difficult to correct the situation. It is for this reason that it is recommended to install the AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Edition, since it is free and supports the Russian-language interface, and practically does not differ from the professional or server modifications in terms of functionality. Of course, you don't need to activate it either (we'll talk about actions with other versions a little later).

8.1 requires at least 16 GB of free space on the system drive. But these are requirements only for the installation itself operating system, space for software, which will later be installed on system disk... Considering this, it is recommended to allocate at least 50 GB of space for the system disk partition. And even more. The fact is that when the system partition of the disk is full, and there is less than 1 GB of space on it, Windows starts to slow down and freeze terribly.

Of course, this problem can be solved by periodically cleaning folders with temporary files, storing videos, photos and music on a non-system partition of the disk, reinstalling resource-intensive programs on it, but all this is not a solid solution to the problem. The problem can only be thoroughly solved by increase in volume system partition disk... And this can be done by taking part of the space from another partition of the disk - a non-system one.

How to increase the size of the C drive or the system drive without losing data - we will consider this issue below.

Working with hard disk partitions - creating them, redistributing volumes, deleting them - is actually a simple process, just risky. One wrong step, one seemingly harmless option, set at random, can destroy both the system and all the data on the hard drive. There is special software for working with disk partitions, many have probably heard or even encountered such functional software packages to work with a hard drive like Acronis Disk Director or Paragon Hard Disk Manager. But we will not expand the system partition of the disk with their help, but we will go in a simpler way.

Is an analogue of the above software products for working with. Unlike the latter, AOMEI Partition Assistant is less well-known, but this does not detract from its advantages at all - the functionality in it is implemented without unnecessary problems that can often be observed in professional software for system engineers. Its disadvantage can be noted only that the imperfect translation into Russian - in places mechanical, in places incomplete. Nevertheless, this drawback will not prevent us from doing the work on expanding the system partition of the hard disk without losing data. Moreover, the program allows this operation to be carried out relatively quickly (depending on the volume added to the system partition), even without restarting the computer.

You need to download and install the AOMEI Partition Assistant program. In our case, the Professional Edition 5.5 will be used, and we recommend it.

Run the program and you will see a picture of your hard drive, in particular, which partitions are taking up how much space. Determine clearly for yourself how many gigabytes you want to increase the system partition of the disk and at the expense of which of the other partitions this increase will occur if you have more than two disk partitions on your computer. On the left side of the AOMEI Partition Assistant window, the so-called wizards will be displayed for working with certain tasks, click the first one - "Expanding the separator wizard" (see one of the "masterpieces" of the mechanical translation of the program).

The wizard window will start. Here you need the "Extend System Partition" option. Click "Next".

The wizard's welcome window will appear, which will tell you that the disk partition you have selected will grow without data loss and even without a reboot. Click "Next".

Then you will see a window for selecting a disk partition, due to which the system partition will be expanded if you have more than two disk partitions on your computer. Accordingly, exactly as much as you increase the system partition, the partition you have selected will be reduced. Select this section and click "Next".

You will be taken to the settings, where you must specify the new size of the system partition. Drag the slider to the approximate volume you need and specify the number (if necessary) in the table below. Click "Next".

A window will appear with complete information about the operation being carried out. Click "Go" if you do not want to change anything.

The status of the operation to expand the system disk will be displayed in the next window of the program. Here you can set the option to turn off your computer if you go to bed or go somewhere. And the AOMEI Partition Assistant will shutdown the computer after finishing its work.

When the operation to expand the system partition of the disk is completed, AOMEI Partition Assistant will notify you accordingly. Click "Ok".

When you return to the main window of AOMEI Partition Assistant, you will see the picture of the hard disk partitions again. But the system partition of the disk will already be enlarged.

That's it - now you can freely dispose of space on the system partition of the disk and not be afraid that it is unnecessary installed program that requires installation only on the system disk will stand in the way of Windows performance generally.

We talked about how to create boot disk(Live CD) AOMEI PE Builder. In this article, I decided to tell you how to divide HDD Windows tools and free program AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Edition.

Why share a hard drive at all? Many laptops and computers are sold with an unbroken hard drive. exists on disk only one sectionC: for system and data and additional service sections for programs from laptop manufacturers.

There is a saying, "Don't keep all your eggs in one basket." The same is the case with your hard drive in the computer, where your operating system (Windows XP, 7, 8, 10) and your data (documents, photos, music, movies and other data) stored on one section Your disk. This is not good, because if an error occurs on the C: partition (drive C :), all data on this partition, including your data, is jeopardized. Second, for per Windows installation, if you have only one section, you need to rewrite all your data from this section to another location, which takes a lot of time with a large volume and is not always available external hard a disk or a USB flash drive where this data can be rewritten. And thirdly, it is always convenient to have two or more partitions (disks) to share systems and data. In this article I will tell you and show you how to divide your hard drive into two partitions (drive C and drive D). There is no particular difficulty in this, but you need to be careful, as there is a risk of losing data, but the risk of losing is always in our life but if you read this article to the end, then everything will become clear even to a child. But it will be better if you create a backup of the data in advance, as I described how to do it. So let's get started ...

How to partition a hard drive by meansWindows

Friends, to partition the hard drive using Windows, you need to go to " Computer management". In Windows 8, for this we right-click in the lower left corner of the screen and select " Disk management»

In Windows 7, go to the menu " Start" and right-click on " A computer"And in the context menu select" Control", Then select" Disk management»

The window “ Disk management". We see that the hard drive of our computer (laptop) is divided into partitions. V this case into two partitions: reserved by the system (350 MB), it contains files Windows boot and system partition C: (24 GB), on which the Windows system.

You may have a disk divided into three or even four partitions (depending on the laptop model), but this does not change the essence of this, since these partitions are most likely inaccessible to you and are used for utilities of laptop manufacturers.

We are interested in section C: (marked in red in the photo), and we must divide it (split) into two parts (section C: and section D :)

Do not be surprised that in the photo I have a small hard drive (25 GB), as I show the whole process on virtual machine, where a hard drive of this size is installed, all actions will take place on physical computer or laptop. But from this the process separation of hard the disk does not change. All pictures are clickable.

Right-click on section C: and select “ Shrink Volume ...»

The system polls the hard disk volume to determine where to compress

In the next window indicate the size of compressed space in MB, that is, we indicate how much we will compress the partition, so that then this space can be given for a new disk partition and press the button " Shrink". We mean that the size of the compressed space is indicated in MB (megabytes), so if you want, for example, to create a new partition with a size of 250 GB (gigabytes), then multiply this figure by 1024 (in 1 GB - 1024 MB), we get 250 * 1024 = 256000 MB.

We also take into account that the system may not give us so much space, since it is already occupied by data.

And further: standard means management Windows disks they may be “stubborn” and do not give as much space as you “ask for”, although it is free from you. This can be caused by a number of reasons, one of which is data fragmentation by this section... In this case, you must use special programs disk management, one of which I describe Further in this article. We read, we are not distracted 🙂

After compressing the partition, we see that now we have a C: partition, and there is additional unallocated space ...

Now we need to create a section from this unallocated space, for this we right-click on it and select “ Create Simple Volume ...»

The creation wizard window appears simple volumes, in which we press " Further»

We indicate the size of our volume in MB and click " Further»

Note:

We assign a letter to our new partition (disk). Click " Further»

We format our new section with the option “ Quick format", Click" Further»

We see that the wizard has completed the creation of the volume (partition) with the parameters that we specified at the beginning .. Press the button " Ready»

We see our two partitions in the disk management window: a reduced partition C: and a new partition E:

Voila! We go to " My computer"And we see our created additional disk

This is how you can partition a hard drive using Windows tools, but this method does not always work or does not always work as expected, so we will consider another option for managing hard drives, this is the multifunctional and free program AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Edition. With the help of it we will do the same and additionally I will show its other main functions.

How to partition a hard drive with a free program

To install the program AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Edition, go to the official website of the program: and click " DownloadFreeware»

We press the button " Download now»

The program will start downloading to your computer. After downloading, run this file to install

Installation of the program is simple, see screenshots (pictures are clickable) ...

To scroll through the pictures, press “ Back" or " Forward»

After installation, run the program AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Edition

We see that the C: partition (drive C :) is large and you can “unfasten” the second partition from it. Usually, for the C: drive, a 60-150 GB partition is sufficient, I usually leave 80 GB.

Now what are we going to do. We will compress the C: drive (change the partition), and use the freed space for a new partition (drive D :). What do we need for this? This program and vial and care.

So, right-click on the C: section and select “ Resize Partition»

Enter a new size for the partition. To do this, use the left mouse button to “grab” the right circle of the section and move it to the left. ... Or specify the size of the section in numbers in the field “ Partition size»

Something like the photo below. I resized the C: partition to 80GB. Click " OK»

Now, in the main window of the program, we see that our disk has unallocated space for a new partition (s). Let's take advantage of this 🙂 and create a new partition in this disk space. To do this, right-click on the unallocated space and select “ Creating a section»

We indicate the size of our new partition, the program by default offers all free space, select the drive letter and click " OK»

Note: If you want to create more than one section, then indicate the desired section less than the recommended maximum, and use the rest of the space for one more section.

To apply all these actions, you need to click the " Apply»

The window " Deferred operations", Where the program shows what operations it will do with our hard disk before reaching the final result. If you agree with the actions of the program, click " Go to»

The program requires a restart, we agree and click " Yes»

Well, what did you like free version programs AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Edition?. I like it. In addition to the fact that the program can divide disks, I will list a number of its main functions:

• Migration of the operating system to SSD / HDD disks;
• Increase, change, move, merge sections;
• Copying a disk / partition;
• Creating, deleting, formatting sections;
• Creating a bootable CD-ROM;
• MBR recovery;
• Conversion from MBR to GPT disk and back without losing data;
• Recovering partitions;
• Testing the surface of the disc;
• Aligning partitions and speeding up drives, especially SSD drives;
• Converting FAT / FAT32 File System to NTFS

The program supports all types of drives: hard drives HDD / SSD with MBR / GPT disk partition styles, RAID arrays, flash drives.

Here is my video on how to partition a hard drive with the free AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Edition

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Friends, there paid version programs, . In the paid version of the program, in addition to the standard functions described above, additional functions are available:

• Converting a section from main to logical and vice versa;
• Allocation of free space from a partition to another partition;
• Creation and work with dynamic disk partitions;
• Converting a dynamic disk to a basic disk;
• Changing the type of section;
• The change serial number hard drive;
• Free technical support

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On new PCs and laptops, you can often find an inefficient allocation of disk space: on the entire hard disk, even if it is a 500 or 1000 GB HDD, not counting small technical partitions, there is only one system C part of the workers' partitions. Suppliers computer technology when installing Windows, they do not always divide the disk into several partitions (C, D, E, etc.), providing the user with the ability to store personal files in a reliable, crash-proof Windows work places. However, the number of partitions on a disk and their size is the sphere of user needs, therefore, the latter should bother with the allocation of disk space. Below we will look at how to divide a hard drive consisting of one C partition with Windows installed on it into several partitions using AOMEI Partition Assistant. We will use its Standard Edition, which is distributed free of charge.

AOMEI Partition Assistant is a rare case when functional program professional grade is supplied free of charge. The expansion of its capabilities is provided for in paid editions, but even in the free edition we will find everything you need to organize disk space, and not only at the basic level, but also at the advanced level. If we are talking only about dividing a disk into partitions, this can be done without resorting to third-party software, using the standard utility of the Disk Management system. But AOMEI Partition Assistant has more potential: mastering it will take the user to a new, more high level owning a computer and will allow him to solve many problems with the disk on his own. So, even such a seemingly simple operation as partitioning a disk into partitions, the AOMEI Partition Assistant program will allow different ways- by dividing the section and by changing its size. We will consider all this in detail below, but first a couple of words directly about the size of section C.

Before proceeding with the division of section C, it is necessary to decide on the size left to it. In order to prevent data loss and Windows disruption, AOMEI Partition Assistant will not allow you to shrink the C partition to a size smaller than the actual size of the data. But the size of partition C should not be equal to its actually occupied space. For Windows to work properly, it is necessary that about 20% of the volume of the C partition remain free. It is desirable that the C partition be at least 80 GB, and better - 100 GB. The data are given without taking into account the installation of certain resource-intensive games and programs on the system partition.

1. Splitting a section

Partitioning is the creation of non-system partitions by dividing existing partitions into two parts. First, section C is divided into two parts, then, in the same way, section D is divided into two parts, and so on. This method is a couple of steps simpler than its alternative - the operation to resize the original partition, which will be discussed below. Partitions formed as a result of division automatically receive their letter and "inherit" from the original partition file system, and on MBR disks there is also a type - primary (main). Only the fourth section will be automatically created with a boolean type.

In the AOMEI Partition Assistant window, click on partition C and click on the "Partition partition" context menu option.

Moving the slider of the graphic block, we form the sizes of the sections. For section C we leave, for example, 80-100 GB, and give the rest to section D. Then press the "Advanced" button at the bottom and activate the option. Click "Ok".

In the main window of the program, we will see a picture of the partitions, which it is not yet, but will be after the application of the planned operations. AOMEI Partition Assistant provides for carrying out several designated operations in a single process. So, in the way described above, the newly formed section D can be divided into two more sections - one smaller, one larger. And the larger section, in turn, can be divided into two more parts. Etc.

After completing the formation of the sections, we can add some more operations. The section context menu, the functions of which are duplicated on the operation panel on the left of the window, allows you to assign the necessary letters to the formed sections and give them your own names (change labels).

If you need to install for some of the partitions of the file system not NTFS, but another, formatting with a change of the file system can be added to the already planned operations.

Once everything is ready, you can start applying the scheduled operations. To do this, click the "Apply" button.

Then we confirm the decision twice - in the list of pending operations and in the window warning about the need to perform operations in the pre-boot mode of the system.

We are waiting for the completion of the work of AOMEI Partition Assistant and after rebooting the system we check the results.

2. Resize the partition

Partition resizing is a way of creating non-system partitions in which the size of the C partition is reduced, while the freed space remains unallocated. From it, respectively, you can form sections. The advantage of this method is the task required parameters partitions as soon as they are created. In the AOMEI Partition Assistant window, click on partition C and click "Resize Partition".

Move the slider of the graphic box to the left until the C section is reduced to the desired size. Next, click "Advanced" and set the option to align partitions. Click "Ok".

Returning to the main window of the program, click the unallocated space formed as a result of the previous operation and click "Create a section".

A special form will appear, where for the future section we can immediately select a letter and a file system. If not all disk space is allocated for the partition, we reduce it by moving the slider of the graphic block to the left. Next, click the "Advanced" button.

In the extended mode of this form on MBR disks, we can select the type of partition - primary or logical. Having decided on the settings, we check that the partition alignment option is active, and then click "OK".

We apply the planned operations and confirm them.

Have a great day!