We have limited partition editing tools within reflect as the software's main priority is creating and restoring backups. What we offer is Managing Partitions in the Image Restore and Clone Wizard. 

If you find Disk Management a pain, using diskpart through an Elevated Command Prompt may be easier.

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Joe A

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Joe Allen - 14 September 2023 8:31 AM

We have limited partition editing tools within reflect as the software's main priority is creating and restoring backups. What we offer is Managing Partitions in the Image Restore and Clone Wizard. 

If you find Disk Management a pain, using diskpart through an Elevated Command Prompt may be easier.

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Joe Allen - 14 September 2023 8:31 AM

We have limited partition editing tools within reflect as the software's main priority is creating and restoring backups. What we offer is Managing Partitions in the Image Restore and Clone Wizard. 

If you find Disk Management a pain, using diskpart through an Elevated Command Prompt may be easier.

Thanks, Joe
I will certainly follow your suggestion!

There are some good free apps (though some will require a paid version to do more sophisticated operations).  I use Partition Wizard that does most things I want to do related to partitioning via the free version. 

I used to use Partition Wizard's free version years ago, but they soon crippled it so it wouldn't work on high capacity drives.  So, now I use AEOMI Partition Assistant's free version.

DB,

Thanks. I installed the AEOMI Partition Assistant.  It seems nice, but I did not try things like convert MBR to GPT - which partition Wizard has but when I tried to run it It says that is in the premium addition only.  Does The AEOMI have similar limitations or do all the options shown in the free version actually work?

I did not like that it did not allow me to install the program on the drive of my choice.  Did I miss something or is that the way it works?

I know the free version of Partition Assistant has at least one cripple: it won't create WinPE bootable media.  It USED to, but they crippled that feature some releases back.  The interface says Pro in white text against an orange tag next to features that are crippled in the free version.


If you specify a different path in the installation step, I don't see why it wouldn't let you.  But, Wondershare Filmora is stupid in that regard.  It ALWAYS installs to the idiotic place of C:\Users and can't be changed.  So, maybe Partition Assistant is the same way.

I have have never used AEOMI Partition Assistant, free or otherwise. I have had a good experiences with a free version of MiniTool Partition Wizard, available on the web. Recommended.

For example, a while back when Windows Update left one of my systems with TWO recovery partitions after an update, leaving a useless, space-hogging old version of Windows Recovery, I used MiniTool Partition Wizard Free to rearrange five partitions to a normal, four-partiton layout, and had no problems.. It relocated and resized existing partitions, preserving original contents without requirng a restore from a backup image.  But then again, I didn't try to create bootable versions of anything with a partition management tool.  For that task, Reflect is usually  quite good at merging itself with code from WindowsRE or Windows PE to create bootable Rescue Media.

Had I been creating a new (replacement)  disk instead of rearranging/resizing partitions on an existing disk,  I certainly would have used Reflect 8's more than adequate tools (suggested by Joe Allen from Support earlier in this topic) to manage partition layout prior while restoring from a backup image.  (Also Recommended)



L.W. (Dan) Danz, Overland Park KS
Reflect v8.1.7638+ on Windows 11 Home 23H2 22631.2715+  

DB,
I do not remember seeing an option to install anywhere specific.  Thanks for the clue about the little orange and white PRO tags. 

Dan,

I have been using Partition Wizard for years and am happy with it.  However the free version does not do everything I would like it to. The AEOMI Partition Assistant does have at least one (maybe more) options in the free version - including the one I had wanted to use in PW but it was not available in the free version. 

I rarely use the partition managers but every so often they come in handy.