Solved - New Simple Volume Greyed out in Disk Management 4 years 4 days ago When you connect a hard drive that is formatted with MBR partition style, the storage space larger the 2TB will be restricted from creating new partitions on it due to MBR disk limit. Usually, this issue happens to MBR hard drives larger than 2TB. New Simple Volume Greyed out on Large Drives See the following picture:ĭo you know what causes this issue and how can you address this problem? We will give you the details.
While using Disk Management to manage hard drive and partitions, many users find that they cannot create new partition on the drive because the New Simple Volume feature is greyed out. I'm dumb.Similar stories New Simple Volume Greyed out Can’t Create New Partition 3 years 52 weeks ago
I also can't extend the other partition, the "extend" option is also greyed out.Īnd, I should probably be asking this on the Win 7 forum and all, but I'm now on Win 8. When I right-click on the unallocated space, all I can do is: New Simple Volume, Properties, and Help. Now you should have "Freespace" where this partition originally was." Then right click on the deleted volume and Delete Partition.
In the instructions, it says to " Right click on the partition that contains the OS you want to delete and Delete Volume. Disk 0 has 351MB Unallocated space, and 465GB of system boot, page file, etc. The only issue remaining is that my primary drive in drive management still has unallocated space. It now no longer dual boots, and Windows 8 is fine. Dual Boot - Delete a OS - Windows 7 Forums I cleaned it up by following the instructions on the below link. Because of the System Reserved partition, it showed both Win 7 and Win 8 available and would prompt to do a dual boot. I did a clean install to Windows 8 Pro 64.
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