Unable to extend partition

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If you initialize a 4TB hard disk as MBR, you can only use 2TB space, the remaining space will be shown as Unallocated. If you use a 2TB+ MBR disk, there's another possible reason why Disk Management is unable to extend volume in Windows 10/8/7.

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There's no difference to resize NTFS or FAT32 partition.

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Solution 1: Run 'Resize/Move Volume' for D drive in NIUBI, simply drag right border towards right to merge this Unallocated space. As you see, Extend Volume is disabled for D drive, although there's contiguous Unallocated space on the right. To show you the truth, I formatted D drive from NTFS to FAT32. In fact, both Shrink and Extend Volume functions support NTFS partition only, FAT32 and any other types of partitions cannot be shrunk or extended.

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Other reasons why unable to extend data volume in Windows 10/8/7 If D drive is Logical and you've deleted it in Disk Management, follow the steps to extend C drive: