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Tip: The following method only works for non-system disk because it requires deleting all volumes on the drive first. In this case, the solution to New Simple Volume greyed out is to convert the MBR disk to GPT. If it says Master Boot Record (MBR), then the disk is using MBR partition table, hence the maximum disk space Windows can use is 2TB. Then navigate to Volumes column to confirm the partition style. If you are using a 3TB hard drive, it's possible that there is no option to create a new partition in Disk Management.Īt this time, you can right-click the hard drive and choose "Properties" from the context menu. I successfully partitioned and formatted the first 700 GB partition into a simple, but for the second one the option for "new simple volume" is greyed out. The 1.3 TB one is the primary volume so I didn't mess with it. It partitioned it into 3 parts one 1.3 TB, and two 700 GB partitions.
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#Volume greyed out windows 10 windows 7
I saw the tutorial on shrinking and partitioning hard drives on this forum and used the windows 7 disk manager to shrink and partition the hard drive. I noticed it reads kind of slowly, so I decided to try to partition it. Let's start with an example saying can't turn second unallocated partition into a simple volume: I just bought a 3TB external hard drive. Case 1: New Simple Volume Greyed out on 3TB Hard Drive Next, we will show you the detailed information. What causes New Simple Volume Greyed out? Usually, this situation will appear if you are creating volume on a 3TB hard drive or on a removable disk. However, in some cases, this feature is greyed out as shown in the picture below, making us unable to create partition on unallocated space Windows 7/8/10. In Disk Management, we can select an unallocated space and then make use of the New Simple Volume feature to create new partitions.