Disk Management Issue

boowho said:

Using this tool

I've always been able to right click on an existing partition and select shrink volume, extend volume, change drive letters and paths, plus several others

Now the only option not "dimmed" is delete partition
Anyone know what's going on?? I'm wanting to change a drive letter
Thanks in advance..... Boowho

Hello, and welcome to Ten Forums.



Most of us use Minitool Partition Wizard (free). It's like Super-Disk Management.
If a hard drive is FULL of partitions, you can't move, resize, extend, etc., until you make some space.
Which is why "Delete" is lit up.

Best Free Partition Manager for Windows | MiniTool Partition Wizard Free


Minitool looks like this...









NOTE: After you tell Minitool to do something... the "Apply" button is in the lower left corner.




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And here's my Disk Management... (on Windows 11).

@boowho


You should be able to "shrink" a partition in Disk Management. That should be lit up.
If things like that are missing... try running these commands... one at a time.
Open a command prompt, as Administrator.

sfc /scannow

If SFC has any errors, fixed or not... then run this...

Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

boowho said:

I've always been able to right click on an existing partition and select shrink volume, extend volume, change drive letters and paths, plus several others

That partition does not have a file system.
Did it have one before?

Please re-post that Disk mgmt diagram with expanded columns in the top half so all the text is visible - How to Post a Screenshot of Disk Management - TenForumsTutorials
In addition, it would be useful to have a look in the top half of the Disk mgmt window set to Disk list [its normal setting is Volume list].
View menu, Top, Disk list.




All the best,
Denis

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Mind a note? I like to also run Error checking [on Properties of the drive] and Optimizing [if having done a lot of file mangement] before doing the manipulation of partitions.