Windows 7: Partition Windows 7 hard drive and run a full image.

Not clear what you have done. Never a good idea to stop a partitioning process. Still not sure whether it actaully started or not.

Fortunately it is a test machine. We will find out soon.

There should be a progress bar. I am creating a partion now, just to show you.

There is 27.39 gb of data to move, it has already moved 7.40 gb in this pic:

Finished in less than 2mins. I am on a desktop and it is an SSD.

I only have one partition on my C: drive as of now.

OK, I have rebooted the computer.

Here is the sequence of events as I actually do them.

Double clicked AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard to open it.

Right clicked C:drive in top panel.

Clicked createpartition.

Changed drive letter to Z:.

New partition size to 25.00GB.

Clicked OK.

Clicked GREEN Apply tick.

Clicked proceed.

Pressed YES torestart computer.

Computer reboots normally in about a minute, this time it tookabout two minutes.

NO PROGRESS BAR.

What have I done wrong?

Did you create boot media first?

No, is that why?

Probably. It needs something to reboot into. Most partitioners will use something that looks like DOS to go into preos mode. Sometimes that isn't possible due to strange mbr on some machines, so the machine just goes back into windows. In that case, use winpe media.

Thanks again for the reply and explanation.

So do I need to go though the create partition process and then make a boot media while doing that before I click the green tick, or do I do it first, and then create the the new partition.

I am confused.

Create boot media first, so you have it on your usb stick.

You can also select "add to recovery environment". That way, you can boot into winre.wim ( the normal way by pressing F8 during post and select "repair my computer" - that is how you boot into winre.wim )

Then boot into either of the above to do your partitioning. Preos mode isn't doable on your test machine.


Winre.wim is a bootable file stored in a hidden folder on your drive. It is installed as part of your normal windows 7 installation.

[If you want to check where it is, you can open an admin command prompt and type:

reagentc /info
(press enter) ]

I am not following this, sorry. What is Preos?
Why can't I do it on my test machine?
Are you saying that I need to do boot media first and then boot into that to create my partition?
I might have to leave this for tonight, I have a consultants appointment tomorrow to see if I have to have another operation.
Thanks for everything today.