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sandipgumtya365
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Oct 13, 2020

HDD Partition error

Hi Members,                     I have a partition of 32 GB in my HDD. When I am trying to create a new partition by clicking "simple new volume" there seems to be an error msg although i am going w...
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sandipgumtya365
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Oct 14, 2020

Mwoehrle 

Hi,

    Performed those steps but still unable to use the free space of 32 GB. You can refer to the screenshot.

 

 

Thanks

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Mwoehrle
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Oct 14, 2020

sandipgumtya365 Good morning. These step I posted weren't to fix the issue, but to verify the partition scheme and ensure that it wasn't GPT. 

 

Your screenshot shows that the drive is in fact MBR, so you should be able to use that free space. 

 

I've seen this happen maybe twice in the past 15 years I've been working on Windows devices, and never did any investigating into why this was happening. Both time I was able to resolve this by creating a partition that was a little smaller than the amount of free space available. So for instance if it said I have 50gb free space but wouldn't let me create a 50gb partition, then I would create a partition for 48gb and it worked. 

 

Have you tried creating a smaller partition to see if that works?