Why extend volume is disabled

Expand partition E by taking free space from an existing partition or from an unallocated space and drag sliding button to decide how much space to take. After application, the selected partition will be extended. I got a good tool to extend partition when Windows 10 Extend Volume greyed out. Thumbs up and share it with all of you! Now it is your turn to check out the exact reason that is responsible for Extend Volume grayed out in Disk Management.

In the same time, you can have a try on this free partition manager to extend partition flexibly. Download Partition Wizard. As we've mentioned above, among the reasons why you can't extend volume, Windows limitation is the major reason. Windows disk management cannot extend a specific partition in situations.

In order to help you out of the "Extend Volume Greyed Out" error and successfully increase partition size, we'd like to recommend you try a reliable tool for extending volume - EaseUS Partition Master.

If some of you still prefer to use Disk Management to fix this error, you may try Method 1 to enable Extend Volume and increase partition space now. When your hard drive doesn't have unallocated space, you can't extend a volume.

Note that if you can't extend C drive space, you can also enable Extend Volume in C drive with the same steps below:. You are now good to go and follow the steps below to enlarge a hard drive partition without the "can't extend volume" error any longer. EaseUS Partition Master with its Allocate Space feature enables you to flexibly move free space from other partitions to extend a target volume.

Step 1. Right-click on the D: partition with enough free space and select "Allocate Space". Step 2. Select the target partition - C: drive and drag the partition panel rightward to add the free space from D: drive to C: drive.

Then click "OK" to confirm. Step 3. Click the "Execute Operation" button and click "Apply" to start the process of moving free space from D: drive to C: drive. If you have unallocated space on your disk but it's not next to your target volume, the Extend Volume option will display as greyed out in Disk Management. Drag the partition panel rightward or leftward to add unallocated space into your current partition and click "OK" to confirm. If there is not enough unallocated space on your disk, right-click on a big partition with enough free space, select "Allocate space ".

Here you have two options o fix this error:. Therefore, we don't recommend you try this method. It's time-consuming and risky. If you're using Windows Server R2 or later, you can also use Azure File Sync to extend your volume into the cloud.

Select and hold or right-click the volume that you want to extend, and then select Extend Volume. Select Next , and then on the Select Disks page of the wizard shown here , specify how much to extend the volume.

Typically you'll want to use the default value, which uses all available free space, but you can use a smaller value if you want to create additional volumes in the free space.

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