While managing your disk space on your system, you may notice that the ‘Extend Volume’ option is greyed out in the option, meaning you can’t extend the volume of the particular drive. This usually occurs in the case of the system partition or the partition containing the Windows system ...
In this article, we will look at how to properly increase a partition (system drive C:) in Windows if the Extend Volume option is not available (greyed out) in the Disk Management console. You need to move or delete the recovery partition if it prevents (blocks) your volume from extendi...
The extend option is greyed out and i cannot also delete the free disk space. pictures of it are bellow. Please help me increase the disk space. Thank you.[ATTACH]... Can't extend C Drive because the partition next to C is Healthy Recovery Partition. What... in Windows 10 Network ...
Continue to read and view the main reasons listed below to learn why the extend volume option is greyed out in your Disk Management. Without Unallocated Space: To extend a partition with Disk Management, you must ensure enough unallocated space on the target disk. Non-adjacent Unallocated Space...
Step 3: Right-click the C drive and select the "Extend Volume" option to claim the unallocated space and expand the C drive without additional software in Windows.VerdictIf Disk Management cannot delete the partition, or the "Extend Volume" option is greyed out for the C drive, it's time...
, this native toolcannot extend C driveby shrinking any other partitions. Because "Extend Volume" only works when there's contiguous unallocated space on the right. After shrinking D or other partition, unallocated space is always nonadjacent to C drive, soExtend Volume option is greyed out....
Can't extend my C: drive to unallocated space even when right next to it: I just installed windows 10 and then deleted my windows 11 partition on this drive but now it won't let me extend my C: drive. The unallocated space is right next to it but the option is greyed out. I kno...
FAQs about Extend Volume Greyed Out 1. Why am I unable to extend my C drive? There are a few common reasons you might not be able to extend your C drive. First, the extra space you want to add must be right next to the C drive; if it's not, the 'Extend Volume' option ...
Thats what my Disk Management looks like, but the Extend option is still greyed out, im not sure how to do it without using 3rd party software. My Computer Quote MilesAhead Posts : 5,092 Windows 7 32 bit 30 Jul 2009 #7 It's way too small for me to see anything in that image...
there must be unallocated space available. This unallocated space will let you extend the partitions. You can use disk management utility for extending the C drive partition. In other cases, you would get the error i.e. extend volume option greyed out and not available. Here are the steps ...