Hophoebe Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 I have a question about extend primary partition Plan to extend P by shrinking L and then extending C by shrinking P, but that didn't work out quite the way I planned. How to allocate xxGB from the L partition to the C partition Someone say bacause P and L partitions are logical partition, it that right? How to do it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
honnalulu Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 You can use this software for your expect task EaseUS | Data Recovery, Backup, Partition Manager & PC Utility Software can edit your partition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carleto Posted August 4, 2016 Share Posted August 4, 2016 On 19/10/2015 at 8:15 AM, honnalulu said: You can use this software for your expect task EaseUS | Data Recovery, Backup, Partition Manager & PC Utility Software can edit your partition. I used this software, but it does not work. Maybe you can tell me about another good software. Thanks in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monicabang Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 There are more than one reason for which you cannot extend the primary partition. From your snapshot, it is easy to find the partition L and partition P are logical drives. To shrink either one of them, you can only get the free space, with which you can only extend the logical drive in its left adjacent side. That's caused by the limitations of Disk Management: 1. Shrinking a primary or logical drive can only generate an unallocated space (for primary drive) or free space (for logical drive) in its right adjacent side. 2. Extending a primary or logical drive requires the unallocated space or free space located in its right adjacent side. Namely, the free space or unallocated space can only be added into the donor partition(ie: the partition you just shrunk). At the same time, Disk Management does not supporting moving any partition. Therefore, many users often find the extend volume greyed out even when they have got unallocated space through shrinking another partition. To solve it, you have to delete the partition right behind the volume you want to extend to get an adjacent unallocated space, or use a third-party partition manager. In your situation, you have to delete all logical drives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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