Use a nonadjacent unallocated space on your disk Let’s see how to use this efficient tool to extend the C drive in 3 different situations.
You won’t lose any data during the process, and it has different features that allow you to extend any drive with or without an unallocated space right behind the target drive. No one would like to lose data, and a backup needs time, if you’re urgent to extend a low free space drive, it couldn’t be a nice choice.įortunately, a pragmatic disk manager- AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional can do this job quickly and safely. Click “Yes” in the warning window to delete all on this drive, then this drive will become an unallocated space right behind the C drive, and the “Extend Volume” of the C drive will be enabled.Įxtend low space C drive without data lossĪlthough you can solve “Extend volume” greyed out Windows 11, you’ll have to delete all your data and files on the other drive. Right-click E drive (or the drive right behind the drive you wish to extend), choose “Delete Volume”. Right-click the “Start” button and select “Disk Management” to open it. We can manually create an unallocated space that is right behind the C drive to enable the “Extend Volume” button. How to fix “Extend Volume” greyed out in Windows 11įor the “Extend Volume” button only available in a specific condition, we’ll introduce how to meet those conditions to use Disk Management to extend C drive, and then, there’s a more practical tool for you to extend C drive in some easier and safer methods Extend drive via deleting volume in Disk Management Then, the “Extend Volume” will be disabled. the file system of low space drive isn’t NTFS or RAW, the unallocated space isn’t adjacent to the target driveģ.
In fact, Disk Management only allows users to execute this feature when there’s an unallocated space right behind the target drive.Ģ. Why “Extend Volume greyed out” in Windows 11 Disk Management?Īs the scenario shows, when the user opened Disk Management to extend the C drive, the “Extend Volume” button is greyed out in the right-click menu, which restricts the user to adjust the low space drive. Please let me know, what I can do about it? Hi, I want to extend the volume size of C: drive in Windows 11 but the “Extend volume” button is not enabled in Disk Management. Scenario: Extend volume is not enabled in Windows 11
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