Oct 13 2020 03:03 AM
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 with all default settings. Can someone help me out?
Thanks
Sandip.
Oct 13 2020 06:49 AM - edited Oct 13 2020 06:50 AM
Open command prompt
type diskutil and press enter
click yes/accept on the UAC prompt if needed
type list disk and press enter
find the disk that you need to partition
type sel disk (the number of disk you need) and press enter
type list part and press enter.
If your partition or the drive is listed as GPT, thats why. Windows cant resize active GPT partitions.
Oct 13 2020 09:45 AM
Hi
Thanks. still can't figure out how to proceed. The diskpart screenshot is attached. Can you help how to do next?
Oct 13 2020 10:17 AM - edited Oct 13 2020 10:17 AM
@sandipgumtya365 Sorry I gave you the wrong instructions. You have two options to check if that disk is GPT or MBR partition scheme.
2) Using the Disk Management Tool
Oct 14 2020 03:02 AM
Hi,
Performed those steps but still unable to use the free space of 32 GB. You can refer to the screenshot.
Thanks
Oct 14 2020 05:15 AM
@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?
Oct 14 2020 07:04 AM
Yes, Tried for 5 or 10 GB but to no avail. same issue. This partition had a lot of data but I had formatted it. Now able to create a partition. How to tackle this?