How to Fix a Grayed Out "Extend Volume" Option in Disk Management for Windows? 1. Press the Win key to open the Start Menu, type Command Prompt, and choose Run as administrator from the right pane. 2. Type DiskPart and press Enter. 3. Type "list disk" and press Enter. This command will display all the available disks. 4. Select the disk that you want to extend. For example, if you want to extend disk 0, type "select disk 0" and press Enter. 5. Type "list partition" and press Enter. This will list all the partitions on the disk. 6. In the Type column, look for the partition that says Recovery. Note the partition number. For example, if the partition number is 4, type "select partition 4" and press Enter. This will select the recovery partition. 7. To delete the recovery partition, type "delete partition override" and press Enter. You will see the message DiskPart successfully deleted the selected partition. This indicates that the recovery partition has been deleted. _______________________________ Next, open the Disk Management tool, and you will see an unallocated space next to the partition you want to extend. Right-click on the partition, choose Extend Volume and then click Next.
I am getting the grayed out "extend volume" too. I did try those steps but wasn't getting the same results and it remains grayed out. Please advise. Thanks. Update: I don't code too much and wasn't aware to leave the quotes out of the commands. Perhaps for newbie like people such as me you can make a note not to use quotes in the command line. It worked. Thanks!!
I tried this and it did not work for me. I have heard that if the VM contains snapshots, editing the size in the tools menu won't work. Can you confirm this? The work around I understand is cloning the VM you want to resize to make a new one without snapshots then resizing that one.
