SSD Alignment

Sorry Wolfgang, that offer expired in July. AOMEI Partition Assistant Pro Edition 5.2 - Giveaway - Glarysoft

That is strange. I downloaded it 1 hour ago.

Sorry, I think I posted the wrong link. This one should work:

Aomei Partition Assistant Pro Edition 5.5 Giveaway

I just downloaded it. Can I create a bootable CD or flash drive from it? Will know soon.

Edit: Yup, it has a create bootable CD/DVD/Flash. Doing it now.

Have a look here:

http://www.disk-partition.com/features/make-bootable-cd.html

Then just burn the .iso with ImgBurn or whatever.

The resulting ISO is MBR format, not EFI. Will it still work on my GPT formatted SSD if I change to MBR mode? Will it cause any grief?

I tried using Rufus to create a EFI bootable flash drive but it says the input ISO is MBR so can't do it.

Sorry if I'm asking a lot of questions but since this is my first EFI/GPT system, this is all new to me.

As far as I know they support GPT - matter of trying. That has nothing to do with how the .iso/CD is formatted.

Bios and EFI are different types of firmware. They can both support MBR and GPT which are partitioning styles.

I think Rufus is trying to say it can't find efi boot information in the iso el torito boot sector.

It is possible there is glitch in the iso writing process. I will pass it on to Aomei.

Meantime, you can use this to create an iso containing Aomei PA Pro which supports both types of firmware if you create it on win7x64 or 8.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/21wh1sm9z4...EALLx64v16.zip

Extract it to C:\PEALLx64v16 EXACTLY like this:



Then rt click and run as admin on the .cmd file.



It will ask if you want to d/l about 8mb of files, so you can have Recuva and a couple of other things in there as well. That is optional, you can say yes or no.

Has anyone tried this with a EFI/GPT system? The flash drive created from AOEMI will not boot for me and as I said, Rufus won't accept the generated ISO as EFI, so at this point I can't try it.

I'm reluctant to boot as MBR as I have no idea what that will do to my existing boot drive, if anything.

See my post above yours 67

If you have Aomei Backupper or Macrium installed, they will also be included in the same iso.