Integrate Partition Assistant or Backupper to Recovery Environment

With this function, you can easily integrate AOMEI Partition Assistant or AOMEI Backupper into Windows built in recovery environment; thus, you can partition, backup and restore your computer in the system RE.

AOMEI Post By AOMEI Updated June 16, 2025

What is "Integrate to Recovery Environment"?

How to Integrate AOMEI Software into the Recovery Environment (RE) in Your System?

"Integrate to Recovery Environment" is a step-by-step wizard in AOMEI Partition Assistant, which aims to add AOMEI software installed on a computer into a Windows operating system equipped recovery environment (RE). After integration is completed, you can directly make use of the AOMEI software under the recovery environment. The AOMEI software available to be added to RE includes AOMEI Partition Assistant and AOMEI Backupper.
This wizard makes it more convenient to use AOMEI Partition Assistant and/or AOMEI Backupper to fix some computer problems and protect data in a recovery environment. When using partition software, some operations need to restart the computer to boot into the recovery environment (PreOS Mode) to finish, such as migrate OS to SSD and shrink the system partition. As for AOMEI Backupper, it's very easy to restore the original system from a backup image file in a recovery environment without bootable media.
 

Integrate AOMEI Partition Assistant and/or AOMEI Backupper into the Recovery Environment

Before you do

  • Your operating system is Windows 7 or a later version, Windows 8/8.1/10 or Windows Server 2008 R2/2011/2012/2012 R2/2016, because only these systems have a recovery environment.

  • The recovery environment is good and complete, and the computer can boot into RE normally.

  • The AOMEI software you want to add to RE is not being used by another process.

Step 1: Select Integrate to Recovery Environment Tool

1. Click "Tools" > "Integrate to Recovery Environment" at the top of the AOMEI Partition Assistant main interface.

Integrate To Recovery Environment

2. A notification will pop up informing you what the operation will do and what you can do after integration is completed.

Integration Notification

Step 2: Choose AOMEI program to integrate

Choose which AOMEI software to integrate into the recovery environment, AOMEI Partition Assistant or AOMEI Backupper, or both of them. If you haven't installed AOMEI Backupper on this computer, of course, you can't integrate it.

Choose Which To Integrate

Step 3: Proceed integration

Click "Proceed" to start integrating to the recovery environment.
When it is complete, click "Finish" to exit.

Finish

Then, you can use AOMEI Backupper and AOMEI Partition Assistant in your system recovery environment.

How to Use AOMEI Software in Recovery Environment?

To get into RE, different operating system has unlike procedures.
In the following content, Windows 10 and Windows 7 will be described as examples.

For Windows 10/11

Step 1: To get into RE, you need to press "Shift" while clicking "Restart". Then, you will see the interface below. Choose "Troubleshoot" to get to the next screen.

Choose an Option

Step 2: Choose "AMBooter" in this step, and you will see the AOMEI software you integrate to recovery environment.

Troubleshoot

Step 3: Choose the program you want to use.

AOMEI Booter

Step 4: When you finish using AOMEI software, just close it to get back to the screen in step1. Then, just click the first "Continue" option to boot from the normal system.
 

For Windows 7

Step 1: To enter Windows 7 recovery environment, you need to continuously press "F8" when computer starts and then you will see the following screen. Press "Enter" to choose the default option "Repair Your Computer".

Repair Your Computer

Step 2: Choose a kind of language to continue.

Select a Language

Step 3: Enter your username and password to log on to access recovery options.

Log on

Step 4: In the System Recovery Option window, select "AOMEI Booter" as the recovery tool.

Choose Recovery Tool

Step 5: Then, choose which AOMEI software you want to use.

AMbooter

How to remove AOMEI Software in the Recovery Environment?

Step 1: Click "All Tools" > "Integrate to Recovery Environment" in AOMEI Partition Assistant main interface.
Step 2: Click "Remove all" to remove AOMEI Software in Recovery Environment.

Remove All

Step 3: A notification will pop up, click "Yes" to continue the operation.

Remove Confirm

 

Conclusion

Integrate to Recovery Environment is a very useful feature. To integrate AOMEI Partition Assistant and AOMEI Backupper into the Windows recovery environment in advance, when it comes to some operations that need to be finished under PreOS mode, you can directly enter RE and carry out those procedures.
Integrate to Recovery Environment is very similar to "Make Bootable Media", both of them aim to manage your disk partition under micro-system or when your computer cannot boot. However, there are differences between them.
  • To make bootable media, you need to prepare a USB drive or a CD/DVD. Besides, you can only add AOMEI Partition Assistant to Windows PE bootable media.

  • Integration into the Recovery Environment can only be used on your current computer. However, the bootable USB drive or CD created with "Make Bootable Media" can be used on the current computer and other computers.