failing to partition with DISKPART

Hi,
I have 1TB drive (931 GB looking form diskpart) and I need to install Win10 (and 11) on the disk. I'm using .WIM file.
For partitioning I'm using text file, with all the commands for the DISKPAT,
for some reason, I have an error, see below:

No usable free extent could be found. It may be that there is insufficient
free space to create a partition at the specified size and offset. Specify
different size and offset values or don't specify either to create the
maximum sized partition. It may be that the disk is partitioned using the MBR disk
partitioning format and the disk contains either 4 primary partitions, (no
more partitions may be created), or 3 primary partitions and one extended
partition, (only logical drives may be created).

Here is the lines from the text file:

select disk 0
clean
convert gpt

create partition primary size=768
format quick fs=ntfs label="Windows RE tools"
assign letter="T"

create partition efi size=100
rem == Note: for Advanced Format Generation One drives, change to size=260.
format quick fs=fat32 label="System"
assign letter="S"

create partition msr size=206806
create partition primary
format quick fs=ntfs label="Windows"
assign letter="W"

create partition msr size=59800
create partition primary
format quick fs=ntfs label="Logical drive"
assign letter="D"

I tried making the size of the "D" drive smaller and even tried making just "100MB" partition but still having the same error.
I also tried removing the "size=59800" from the file.

I thought it (diskpart) would format remaining part of the drive:

create partition primary
format quick fs=ntfs label="logical drive"
assign letter="D"


This time I had an error :

There is not enough usable space. Diskpart Virtual disk Service error...



Could you guys help me with this?

A more typical diskpart:

Code:

select disk 0
clean
convert gpt

create partition efi size=100
rem == Note: for Advanced Format Generation One drives, change to size=260.
format quick fs=fat32 label="System"
assign letter="S"

create partition msr size=16

create partition primary size=206790
format quick fs=ntfs label="Windows"
assign letter="W"

create partition primary size=768
format quick fs=ntfs label="Windows RE tools"
set id=de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac
gpt attributes=0x8000000000000001
assign letter="T"

create partition primary size=59800
format quick fs=ntfs label="Logical drive"
assign letter="D"

Run diskpart, and confirm the actual disk size matches the sum of all the partition sizes you've specified. In your original diskpart file, you created two MSR partitions (when only a small one is needed). I've subtracted 16 from the Windows volume to account for the single MSR partition.

"convert gpt" doesn't automatically create a MSR partition. It only changes the disk type, you still have to create a single MSR partition which can stay the minimum size of 16 MB.

Windows doesn't care about the exact order of the partitions, as long as each one is correctly created. But the normal practice is to put the most static partitions (which rarely change in size) in the front. So the typical order is 1. EFI, 2. MSR.

After that, it's normal to put the Recovery partition immediately after Windows. This is to allow you to grow the Recovery partition by deleting it, shrinking Windows volume by some amount, and then recreating a larger Recovery partition in the enlarged gap.

If you have a data partition, it's up to you if you want it at the end, or before the Windows/Recovery pair.

For example:
EFI | MSR | Windows | Recovery | Data
or
EFI | MSR | Data | Windows | Recovery

One thing you can do for disk layout on a disk where you're not sure about the exact size is to specify all but one of the partitions as a fixed size, and allow diskpart to figure it out the math.

Example: EFI | MSR |Windows (206790 MB) | Recovery (768 MB) | Data (remaining disk space)

Code:

...
create partition primary size=206790
format quick fs=ntfs label="Windows"

create partition primary size=768
format quick fs=ntfs label="Windows RE tools"
set id=de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac
gpt attributes=0x8000000000000001

create partition primary
format quick fs=ntfs label="Logical drive"

Example: EFI | MSR | Windows (remaining disk space) | Recovery (768 MB) | Data (59800 MB)

Code:

...
create partition primary
shrink minimum=60568  <-- subtract 768 (Recovery) + 59800 (Data)
format quick fs=ntfs label="Windows"

create partition primary size=768
format quick fs=ntfs label="Windows RE tools"
set id=de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac
gpt attributes=0x8000000000000001

create partition primary size=59800
format quick fs=ntfs label="Logical drive"

garlin said:

"convert gpt" doesn't automatically create a MSR partition.

Depends. It does if diskpart is executed from a running Windows installation.