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Press Windows Key + X and select Command Prompt (Admin) from the list to open an elevated command prompt.

Here’s how to do it: Partitions in Between To fix this, you will have to, unfortunately, delete the partitions in between. If you have unallocated space on your hard drive but you are still not able to extend a volume, this is probably because there are other partitions between the unallocated space and the volume you want to extend.

Solution 2: Deleting the Partition in Between However, if you want to delete the partition, please check the instructions provided in solution 2. To know how to shrink a volume, please refer to this article on our site. You can learn more about this in the next solution. However, it is important to note that if the unallocated space and the volume you want to extend aren’t right next to each other, you still won’t be able to extend the volume. You can also get some unallocated space by shrinking a partition if you want to avoid deleting it completely. In order to create unallocated space, you will have to delete a volume or partition that is not being used or is empty and then extend the volume that you have been trying to. To fix this, you will have to create some unallocated space. If you do not have any unallocated space on your hard drive, it is quite natural that the option will be greyed out. Solution 1: Create Unallocated Spaceįirst things first, make sure that you have unallocated space on your system drive to be able to extend a specific volume. Note:īefore you get into the solutions, please make sure that you have made a backup of all the files on your partitions as one or two solutions might require you to delete a partition. Getting onto the solutions of the issue, you can isolate your problem by going through the workarounds down below.

System volume: If the volume that you are trying to extend is the system volume (where Windows is installed), you will not be able to extend it using the Disk Management tool.

If there’s no unallocated space on your hard drive, you won’t be able to extend the volume naturally.

No unallocated space: The primary requisite when extending a volume is unallocated space.

Therefore, if the volume that you are trying to extend is in FAT32 format, the option will be greyed out.

Partition format type: It is important to note that only NTFS file systems can be extended using the Disk Management utility.