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How to safely extend c drive in Windows 11 when the menu grayed out?
Hi everyone, On my Windows 11 PC, the C drive is 80 GB and the free space is very small. I have to manually delete the files in order to make more room for C drive. Now, I’m trying to extend C dr...
Don't waste time on the built-in Disk Management utility. The Extend Volume... option is grayed out.
If you really want to increase the C drive space without losing data, please follow this step-by-step guide instead:
https://www.howtogeeker.com/increase-c-drive-on-windows-pc
If you're trying to extend your C drive in Windows 11 and the Extend Volume option is grayed out, why? If your drive is using the MBR format, you're limited to just four primary partitions. If you've maxed that out—say, you've got a couple of primary partitions and a couple of logical ones—forget about extending that C drive! I once ran into this when I had a combo of partitions for my OS, media, and backups. I thought I had enough space, but nope! Suddenly I'm juggling partitions in weird ways just to make it work.