![]() ![]() Now, it is time to find out the corresponding solution. How to enable the "Extend Volume" option of C drive?įrom above, we learn the possible causes behind the "Extend Volume" of C drive greyed out in Windows 11, 10, 8, 7. So, many users find there is free space adjacent to the target NTFS partition, but the "Extend Volume" is still greyed out. To extend a primary partition requires the adjacent “Unallocated Space”, not “Free Space”. When we delete a logical drive, we get "Free Space" while we delete a primary partition and we get "Unallocated Space". Logical drives is created or exists inside an extended partition. This involves the difference between "logical drive" and "primary partition". ▶ Confused "Free Space" and "Unallocated Space" that is adjacent to the target volume. Disk Management can only resize (shrink or extend) partitions with NTFS file system. ▶ The to-be-extended partition is not formatted with NTFS. Disk Management can only extend a volume when it is followed by adjacent unallocated space. ▶ There is unallocated space, but not adjacent to the target partition on its right side. When there is not any unallocated space on the same disk that contains the partition you wish to extend, the "Extend Volume" will appear to be grayed out. ▶ There is no unallocated space available on the disk. Generally speaking, the possible reasons can be concluded as following: ![]() But when users try to extend C drive space via the Windows snap-in Disk Management tool, some of them find the ‘Extend Volume” is greyed out/disabled (like the above scenario). This matter a lot if it is the C drive that runs out of space since, because C drive with little space may slow down your computer and even cause other issues, such as system crash or freeze. It is necessary for users to extend a disk partition when Windows computer says this drive is running out of disk space. ![]() Why the "Extend Volume" option is disabled in Windows? However, when i right clicked on C drive "Extend Volume " and try to add unallocated space into C drive, the extend volume of C drive is disabled as shown below.Why this happen? Any one can tell how to fix it? Thanks a lot! I have some free space on D drive, so I shrunk it to get a piece of unallocated space with about 340GB. My C drive is almost full and unable to run major applications smoothly. ![]()
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