AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Review

AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Review - Hard drives and partitions are not strange things in our life and work. You will meet some problems with partitions or hard disks when you buy a new computer, when you want to install more than one operating system and even when you meet some boot problem. Basically, some problems can be fixed with the Windows built-in disk management tool. But in some specific circumstances, you need to depend on some third-party utility. If you are looking for a simple and free partition software to manage your hard drive and partition in Windows operating system with equipping advanced features, you can't miss AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard.

AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard is a complete free and full-featured partition manager, which is designed to cover the most pressing partition-related needs at no charge. It includes the basic partitioning function and advanced features, such as create partitions, resize partitions, split partitions, merge non-adjacent partitions, Windows to go creator, create a bootable disk, SSD secure erase and other practical operations. With intuitive interface and easy to use features, AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard has been downloaded and used more than millions. Now at the version 6.5.0, let's see how the freeware stands from its competitors.

Intuitive User Interface

Once downloaded and opened the freeware, even a novice can understand the meaning of the most functions. Following the simple guide, most of your problems can be solved easily. All the functions are listed on the left interface and you can also use it via the top columns based on hard disk, partitions and wizards.

The frequently used features the free edition of AOMEI Partition Assistant supports

• You can merge two adjacent partitions and merge unallocated space into a partition to increase the partition size and makes your PC running smoothly;
• It helps you solve some computer problems and improve the performance of your computer by making sure that your hard disk has no errors with the feature of checking bad sector;
• You can change the assign drive letters in order to access the files or folders on the drive;
• It helps you solve some problems such as system missing, or system could not boot up. Use the latest MBR repair tool - partition assistant to rebuild mbr easily and safely；
• Since disks must be initialized before they can be formatted and used to store data. Then the Initialize Disk feature initializes a raw disk to either the MBR or GPT disk styles;
• As you know that Windows only allows you initialize a blank disk to GPT or MBR. Then you can use convert mbr to gpt feature to achieve the goal with minimal effort.

The improvements in the 6.5.0 version

• Added "SSD Secure Erase Wizard": securely erase your SSD to reset the SSD to its factory state for peak performance.
• Enhanced Windows To Go Creator: support to choose a system in WIM file.
• For safety, add limitation to resize/move boot partition in Windows 10, version 1703 and later under Windows and PreOS environments. However, there is no limitation under Windows PE environment.
• Fixed bug: in rare cases, error code 6 occurs during conversion between MBR and GPT.
• Fixed bug: an encrypted disk will be initialized.
• Fixed some other known bugs.

  Final Thoughts on AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard

As a third-party partition software, AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard is free and simple, which is a must choice for newbies to manage their hard drive easily. Though the free version is powerful, the paid version for business and server management are more versatile and robust.