{"id":6184,"date":"2021-11-18T09:45:52","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T09:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=6184"},"modified":"2021-11-18T09:50:28","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T09:50:28","slug":"cannot-extend-volume-in-win-7-disk-management","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/windows-7\/cannot-extend-volume-in-win-7-disk-management\/10224.html","title":{"rendered":"Cannot Extend Volume In Win 7 Disk Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<br \/>\nHow 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":9},"question-category":[42],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-6184","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-windows-7"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/6184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=6184"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=6184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}