[SOLVED] How do I take advantage of unallocated space on a HDD?

relztrah · Apr 16, 2021

I'm playing with an old machine with Windows 10 32 bit that has 111 GB of unallocated space in the HDD. Running Disk Management as Administrator I see:

I would obviously like to expand the DATA (C:) partition to take advantage of that space. But I can't shrink the unallocated space.

Nor can I extend partition DATA (C:) because the Extend Volume is greyed out.

I can create a new volume from that unallocated space, but still I am unable to do anything with it or extend the DATA (C:) partition to include it.

Where do I go from here? Thanks in advance for any advice.

xrobwx71 · Apr 16, 2021

Make sure to backup first.

Try creating a new simple volume on the unallocated space and then extend it to the c drive.

SleepyDude · Apr 16, 2021

Hi,

Windows partition manager is limited on the type of tasks it can do! to extend the C: partition you need to use some 3rd party tool like EaseUS Partition Master Free
Free partition manager software to resize partitions - EaseUS® Partition Master Free

Edit:

This type of tools are safe but when messing with disks/partitions things can go wrong so having good backups is always recommended.

xrobwx71 · Apr 16, 2021

SleepyDude said:
Hi,

Windows partition manager is limited on the type of tasks it can do! to extend the C: partition you need to use some 3rd party tool like EaseUS Partition Master Free
Free partition manager software to resize partitions - EaseUS® Partition Master Free

Edit: This type of tools are safe but when messing with disks/partitions things can go wrong so having good backups is always recommended.

I use Minitools Partition Manager. It's good as well. I am however going to try this EaseUS app.

relztrah · Apr 16, 2021

EaseUS did the trick! Thank you for the suggestion.

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[SOLVED] How do I take advantage of unallocated space on a HDD?

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