I just installed a use hard drive that had 2 partitions on it. This is an extra drive for data or backups. I am running a PC with Windows7 Professional. When I go to Computer management and then Storage, Disk Management, I show one partition healthy (Primary Partition). There is a 199 GB Unallocated partition that I want to format and create a usable partition but when I right click on it, there are a bunch of greyed out options such as: New Simple, New Spanned, New Striped, etc.
How can I utilize this 199 GB of disk space? When I right click into the 80 GB healthy partition that I want to extend the volume but when I try, I get An unexpected layout change occurred external to the volume manager. I need help.
Cannot Extend Volume In Win 7 Disk Management
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It sounds like your partition change to spanned volume, to convert a dynamic disk to basic is simple, but if the dynamic disk contain spanned volume, RAID 0,1 5 it is hard to convert without data loss, I think you could try this dynamic disk converter, use the second method to clone your spanned volume to a basic disk. By this way it will keep your data safe. You could refer to this tortral “clone dynamic volume to basic disk”
http://www.dynamic-disk.com/resourc…
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Agreed. As Wanderer says, just delete the partitions and begin as you would with a new hard drive and set it up as you like from scratch.
If Disk Manager will not let you delete the partitions then use Windows 7 install disk to delete the partitions: Install>Custom>Partition/Format then after you delete the partition (unless you need to reinstall) back out of the install and use Disk Manager to manage the unallocated space left behind.
I assume you have TWO drives in the system with one being the added drive that is dynamic and the other being the original drive with the OS on it.
Go into disk management and wipe out all partitions on the drive and set to basic disk. Then partition as you desire. You don’t need killdisk to do this.
Only disk management gives you the true drive picture. What you see in My Computer is the end result of what was setup in disk management. So when you say you see a drive in My Computer you wish to partition you can’t because you are already seeing the partition.