Partition Windows 7 hard drive and run a full image.

I might have missed the answer, where you planning to store your backup images onto a large usb stick? Or, onto a usb 1-3TB external HD?

I don't think a usb flash drive/stick is a realistic backup medium. For storing system images along with miscellaneous data backup you should be looking at a small external usb hard drive at a minimum if funds permit. I think 1TB is as small as you can get now. If your notebook usb port is usb3 then it should be a usb3 ext HDD.

Backupper and part assist are separate programs.

Backupper will create boot media including only Backupper.

Part Assist will create boot media including Part Assist - if you already have Backupper installed, it will also be included in the same boot media.

What a day, I have only just got round to this about an hourago.

I ran the AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard v6.3.0.0, right clicked the C: drive in the bottom pane,clicked create partition, entered the size of the new partition and made it Z:etc, it defaulted to logical. I then clicked exit which led me to review thedata and then I clicked proceed.

It doesn’tappear to be doing anything.
I wouldexpect a status bar or something.
I did this about half an hour ago.

Have I doneanything wrong?

You will have to post a screenshot to give us an idea of the layout .

mbr partitioned can only have 4 partitions. Usually the fourth is created as an "extended" partition, inside which more logical partitions can be created.

Not clear what you asked Aomei to do.

If it involves shrinking, it may need to move data.

I then clicked exit which led me to review thedata and then I clicked proceed.

After "proceed" it should show what the intended changes are.

To get it to apply the proposed changes, you need to click APPLY. The Big Green tick at top left of window.

I suggest you post a screenie first.

Hard to tell from your description.

If you applied the changes, then the program is making the changes. It is possible it may be moving data at the end of the original partion. It will need to do that before creating a new one.

EDIT: When I click START the Run box is filling up with quote marks, is this normal?

Is that on the machine you are trying to partition? Could be using a lot of cpu and moving data. best not to muck around with the drive you are partitioning. If you were going to post a screenie, that would be before applying changes, not during.

I have no idea why it is trying to apply the changes if you did not click the Apply tick. Never come across that before.