Many people like to shrink partition with Windows 2012 R2 Disk Management because this solution does not cause any data loss. If there is no unallocated space, it is easy to get some by deleting or shrinking partition. (You may convert it to GPT disk to get it extended.)
The physical disks in a striped volume do not need to be identical, but there must be unused space available on each disk that you want to include in the volume. Simply say, if you want to extend C drive, you must make sure that the unallocated space is behind the C drive.Ĭan you extend striped volume after creation? The reason is that you can extend a partition in Disk Management only condition that there is adjacent unallocated space. The problem is that " Extend Volume" is grayed out. In this way, why extend volume is greyed out? If you want to extend dynamic volume, right click on it then choose " Extend Volume" and then next step you need to specify the amount of space by which you want to extend the dynamic partition. You cannot extend volumes formatted using FAT or FAT32.Īdditionally, can you extend a dynamic disk? MSC to open Windows disk manager as follows.
You can extend a volume only if it does not have a file system or if it is formatted using the NTFS file system. A spanned volume is a dynamic volume that consists of disk space on more than one physical disk. Keeping this in view, can you extend or shrink a spanned volume?Įxtend a Simple or Spanned Volume. Select the amount of space to be used to extend the target simple volume and click Next to continue. Right click the simple volume, and choose Extend Volume from the menu.
How do you extend a simple volume? Open Disk Management.
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