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Disk management tool won't allow new simple volume, no obvious reason.
I'm trying to create a new simple volume in 130 GB free disk space. There's no obvious reason why it would refuse to do so - I'm not at the hard limit on number of partitions or anything - but disk management MSC is consistently returning "Not enough space" errors.
The only thing I can think of is something to do with the partition order, but if so I have no idea how to fix it non-destructively. I'm in the middle of backups on it, so deleting partitions is a no-go. At the moment I don't understand what's going on.
DISKPART output (Win 7 x64):
The disk structure is: (1) primary partition/system volume 43GB, (2) extended partition 190GB containing 136GB contiguous blank space and 54GB logical drive.Code:DISKPART> list disk Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt -------- ------------- ------- ------- --- --- Disk 0 Online 232 GB 134 GB DISKPART> list partition Partition ### Type Size Offset ------------- ---------------- ------- ------- Partition 1 Primary 43 GB 1024 KB Partition 0 Extended 188 GB 43 GB Partition 2 Logical 54 GB 178 GB DISKPART> list volume Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- Volume 0 E DVD-ROM 0 B No Media Volume 1 C SYSTEM W NTFS Partition 43 GB Healthy System Volume 2 D DATA NTFS Partition 54 GB Healthy
I have no idea what Windows is complaining about or how to fix it. The disk is good and the volumes good too, so I'm guessing it's got to be related to the partition table but what's the reason and how to fix it?