Disk management tool won't allow new simple volume, no obvious reason.


  1. Posts : 5
    Win7 x64
       #1

    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):

    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
    The disk structure is: (1) primary partition/system volume 43GB, (2) extended partition 190GB containing 136GB contiguous blank space and 54GB logical drive.

    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?
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  2. Posts : 5,795
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1
       #2

    Post a screenshot of the Disk Management snap-in. If it was me, I'd nix all the extended partitions completely, and also keep it to two total partitions. One primary for C and one primary for D. I have always used primary so they have no links or ties to each other.
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