Partitioning... Trying to create a new simple volume.

[FreudianSlap]

Hi all!

I'm wanting to create a new partition on my drive of about 100GB. I shrank the main partition which left me with 98.05GB unallocated. Fine, but when I try to create a new simple volume in the unallocated space I get the error: "There is not enough space on the available disks to complete the operation."

It does ask me what size I want the new simple volume to be, but I've tried everything from the entire size of the unallocated space, down to 1GB. Am I missing something here?

Any help would be appreciated, Many thanks.

 

[severedsolo]

its giving you the wrong error message, the problem is you have 4 primary partitions, in order to make that new volume in that location using windows, C:\ would need to be converted to an extended partition, i dont know how to do this im afraid, but if you stick around sure someone will help

 

[FreudianSlap]

Is that a windows limitiation, that it won't see more than four partitions, or is it a limitation of the windows disk managament tool, that it wont create more than four?

Could I allocate that space using a different partition program, and if so, would Windows recognise it?

 

[CyberZeus]

No, you cannot have more than four primary partitions. It's an MBR architecture limitation, not Windows limitation nor Disk Management limitation. You can create an extended partition.

 

[FreudianSlap]

Hi, thanks for your replies.

I've resolved this by backing up everything on D, then creating an extended partition, and recreating D, as well as the extra drive I needed.

 

[CyberZeus]

Happy you solved