AOMEI Partition Assistant ???

Hi All,

Any of you guys familiar with AOMEI Partition Assistant?

http://www.disk-partition.com/download-home.html

I am looking for a painless way to clone a mechanical hard
drive to an SSD

Many thanks,
-T

T wrote:
Hi All,

Any of you guys familiar with AOMEI Partition Assistant?

http://www.disk-partition.com/download-home.html

I am looking for a painless way to clone a mechanical hard
drive to an SSD

Many thanks,
-T

According to the table here, the Free one on the left
is missing "alignment". That means if you take an
MSDOS divisible-by-63 aligned disk and want megabyte
alignment, that's not a feature of the free edition.

http://www.disk-partition.com/compare-edition.html

Is that important ? Maybe. In your business, time is money.

*******

The Macrium Reflect Free has alignment, but finding the
dialog is a bit tricky. Use the Next, then the Back button,
click on the Target partition, and it can be adjusted.

You can clone/backup/restore from a Macrium CD. One unknown,
is if enough drivers are present in the WinPE, for the job
you're doing (NVMe???).

In a review, AOMEI Backupper has the best backup times.
So they can write fast software. But every one of these
companies has to apply a gradient to the features provided,
so you'll be coaxed to buy the paid version. And that usually
means the Free versions aren't worth keeping in your kit bag,
because they're missing this and that.

Macrium doesn't do full partition management. If you
came to my house, and did a clone/resize/realign on
the fly, I could tell from the gap-toothed Disk Management
view afterwards, what tool you used. Macrium doesn't
allow moving partition origins to take up left-over
space. And it would be clumsy and inefficient, to
"fix" that later with GPARTED :-)

You *can* get rid of the gap-toothed problem, if you
clone one partition at a time. But then, I've not
spent the time to verify that method preserves boot
characteristics. If you clone a whole disk, generally
the tool recognizes the active partition, corrects OS
GUIDs and the like. (These are recorded to the on-screen
log.) If you copy a single partition at a time, you can
"snug them up" on the target, as well as set the alignment
to 1MB, but then the OS detection logic might end up
disabled. That's my concern with fixing it that way,
is the unknown extent of boot corrections.

If you need to test stuff like this, you could test
in a VM (to isolate your real disks from damage). But
VMs are not known for their I/O speed, which is a shame.
If you need to, you can even use disk2vhd to "drag" an
actual source drive, into the VM world.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/...rnals/ee656415

I've done that on occasion. And discovered that my Win10
Release install, does not lock up instantly, if migrated.
The OS remains calm and collected, and within a minute or
two, a notification balloon will appear indicating
"you're a cheap *******", only stated in more professional
language than that :-) I've had copies of Windows before,
which had the correct drivers for the storage ports, lock
up when I try stuff like that. The one Win10 test I've done of
this, was a pleasant surprise, by Microsoft standards. I
was expecting the mouse cursor to be frozen in the
dead center of the screen :-)

Paul

On 03/05/2017 07:34:54, T wrote:
Hi All,

Any of you guys familiar with AOMEI Partition Assistant?

http://www.disk-partition.com/download-home.html

I am looking for a painless way to clone a mechanical hard
drive to an SSD

Many thanks,
-T

Easeus partition master free will do that.
http://www.easeus.com/partition-manager/epm-free.html

--
mick

On 05/03/2017 02:34 AM, T wrote:
Hi All,

Any of you guys familiar with AOMEI Partition Assistant?

http://www.disk-partition.com/download-home.html

I am looking for a painless way to clone a mechanical hard
drive to an SSD

Many thanks,
-T
Macrium. Been there, done it.

On 05/02/2017 11:34 PM, T wrote:
Hi All,

Any of you guys familiar with AOMEI Partition Assistant?

http://www.disk-partition.com/download-home.html

I am looking for a painless way to clone a mechanical hard
drive to an SSD

Many thanks,
-T


Thank you all for the tips! Sorry it took me so long
to thank you all.

Paul schreef op 03-05-2017
in :
T wrote:
Hi All,

Any of you guys familiar with AOMEI Partition Assistant?

http://www.disk-partition.com/download-home.html

I am looking for a painless way to clone a mechanical hard
drive to an SSD

Many thanks,
-T

According to the table here, the Free one on the left
is missing "alignment". That means if you take an
MSDOS divisible-by-63 aligned disk and want megabyte
alignment, that's not a feature of the free edition.

http://www.disk-partition.com/compare-edition.html

Is that important ? Maybe. In your business, time is money.

*******

The Macrium Reflect Free has alignment, but finding the
dialog is a bit tricky. Use the Next, then the Back button,
click on the Target partition, and it can be adjusted.

You can clone/backup/restore from a Macrium CD. One unknown,
is if enough drivers are present in the WinPE, for the job
you're doing (NVMe???).

In a review, AOMEI Backupper has the best backup times.
So they can write fast software. But every one of these
companies has to apply a gradient to the features provided,
so you'll be coaxed to buy the paid version. And that usually
means the Free versions aren't worth keeping in your kit bag,
because they're missing this and that.

Macrium doesn't do full partition management. If you
came to my house, and did a clone/resize/realign on
the fly, I could tell from the gap-toothed Disk Management
view afterwards, what tool you used. Macrium doesn't
allow moving partition origins to take up left-over
space. And it would be clumsy and inefficient, to
"fix" that later with GPARTED :-)

You *can* get rid of the gap-toothed problem, if you
clone one partition at a time. But then, I've not
spent the time to verify that method preserves boot
characteristics. If you clone a whole disk, generally
the tool recognizes the active partition, corrects OS
GUIDs and the like. (These are recorded to the on-screen
log.) If you copy a single partition at a time, you can
"snug them up" on the target, as well as set the alignment
to 1MB, but then the OS detection logic might end up
disabled. That's my concern with fixing it that way,
is the unknown extent of boot corrections.

If you need to test stuff like this, you could test
in a VM (to isolate your real disks from damage). But
VMs are not known for their I/O speed, which is a shame.
If you need to, you can even use disk2vhd to "drag" an
actual source drive, into the VM world.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/...rnals/ee656415

I've done that on occasion. And discovered that my Win10
Release install, does not lock up instantly, if migrated.
The OS remains calm and collected, and within a minute or
two, a notification balloon will appear indicating
"you're a cheap *******", only stated in more professional
language than that :-) I've had copies of Windows before,
which had the correct drivers for the storage ports, lock
up when I try stuff like that. The one Win10 test I've done of
this, was a pleasant surprise, by Microsoft standards. I
was expecting the mouse cursor to be frozen in the
dead center of the screen :-)

Paul

Great answer!

--
MdW.