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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
Reason: unallocated space is not adjacent to C drive.
Deeper reason: Disk management cannot change the start position of a volume
Best solution: move D to the right and make the unallocated space adjacent to C.
If you worry about data very much, image back up or clone disk/partition at first.
Watch the video how to move D and extend C: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-xYu27zS80