moving the start of a 2nd partition to make room for the 1st partition to grow, but if that's what you wanted to do I'd give the edge to EaseUS, mainly because I *think* it's more mature. 'Īomei seems roughly on a par with EaseUS when their partitioning apps are used for standard creating, re-sizing, formatting partitions - I don't like using any partition app to relocate data, e.g. I have never heard of Aomei so I’d like to hear anyone who has experience enough to make some comparisons. #6: 'I use both Paragon and EaseUS partition managers which I find to be pretty good. The Microsoft Reserved Partition (MSR) reserves space on each disk drive for subsequent use by operating system software. of one wants to replace a 1980s era MBR partitioned system disk (~150GB hard disk) with a newer 250GB ssd would not there be a problem (as listed as a feature in the Aomei partition assistant program) getting the boot info mirrored to the new ssd, not to mention all the other system programs.Īnd would that invalidate the GaotD programs installed on that older HD, (not to mention registry values)? Microsoft places the HAL, loader, and other files that are needed to boot the operating system in the ESP.

Extensible Firmware Interface System Partition (ESP) contains the NTLDR, HAL, Boot.txt, and other files that are needed to boot the system, such as drivers.ĮSP partitions can be replicated for high-availability configurations but replication must be done manually and the contents must be synchronized manually when using software volumes.

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