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Download NIUBI Partition Editor, right click D: drive and select "Resize/Move Volume", drag the middle towards right in the pop-up window, then Unallocated space is moved to the left side.

How to fix Windows 10 Extend Volume greyed out for system C drive: When Extend Volume greyed out for C drive after shrinking D or other volume, you must move Unallocated space next to C drive and then combine it with NIUBI Partition Editor. What to do when Extend Volume is disabled in Windows 10/8/7 Solution 1: Move Unallocated space Before extending F drive past 2TB, you must convert this MBR disk to GPT. When you right click this Unallocated space in Disk Management, all options are grayed out.Īs you see in the screenshot, F: drive is NTFS and there's contiguous Unallocated space on the right, but Extend Volume is still grayed out in Windows 10 Disk Management.

If you initialize a 4TB hard disk as MBR, you can only use 2TB space, the remaining space will be shown as Unallocated.

Reason 4: 2TB restriction on MBR diskĪnother major limitation of MBR style disk is that you can only create maximum 2TB partition on it. Likewise, Unallocated space deleted from a Primary partition cannot be extended to any Logical drive via Windows Disk Management. Free space is still a part in the container (Extended Partition), so it cannot be combined to any Primary partitions. Unlike Primary partition whose disk space will be converted to Unallocated after deleting, disk space of a Logical partition will be converted to Free after deleting. It is better to shrink partition, because you won't lose data in it. You can get Unallocated space by deleting or shrinking other volume. Note: the size of a physical hard disk is fixed, a 256GB disk cannot be decreased to 128GB or increased to 512GB, so before extending a partition, there must be Unallocated space on the same disk. In Windows XP Disk Management, Unallocated space can only be used to create new partition, but in Windows 10/8/7, it can be used to expand other drive. Why Extend Volume greyed out in Windows 10 Disk Management: Reason 1: No adjacent Unallocated space on the rightĪs the name, Unallocated is kind of a space that is not allocated to any partition.

In this article I'll introduce all probable reasons why Extend Volume greyed out in Windows 10/8/7 Disk Management and how to solve this problem easily. Windows 8/10 inherited the same functions without any improvement, so many people feedback that Extend Volume is grayed out and they cannot extend partition. However, both functions only work under specific conditions. From Windows 7, Microsoft enhanced the ability of native Disk Management tool by adding new Shrink Volume and Extend Volume functions, with which you can resize partition without losing data (in most cases).