The situation can happen to Windows 11,10, 8, 7 and any other Windows versions, Virtual machines, and VMware.Ĭan you delete the recovery partition to extend the C drive? Once the C drive and unallocated space are blocked by the recovery partition, the "Extend Volume" option is greyed out, becoming no available to use at the moment. He failed because there is a recovery partition in between. Now he wants to merge the unallocated space to the C drive in Windows 11/10. This is a slightly modified thread from Microsoft Community ( thread source), and it's not hard for us to find similar posts on other popular forums, with questions like "Cannot extend C drive because of recovery partition", "recovery partition is getting in the way of extending C partition", "Can I delete recovery partition to extend C drive?", and so forth.įrom what the Microsoft Community user has outlined, he has a default UEFI/GPT-based hard drive partition layout, including a system partition, System Reserved partition (MSR), Windows C partition, Recovery Partition, in addition, a large chunk of unallocated space.
Anyone have any idea how I can resolve this and make one single system drive?" I assume that it's because the unallocated space is not contiguous. So when I right-click on C drive, expand partition is greyed out. I have a System Reserved (350MB), C-Drive/healthy/boot/etc (297GB), Recovery Partition (450MB), Unallocated (167GB).
It worked fine, but now I can't extend the partition because the free space is contiguous. "I just replaced my system drive with a bigger drive. See the video below where a VM is simply moved from a vSphere 6.0 to a 6.5 host and is then allowed to hot-extend the disk past 2TB.Cannot extend c drive because of recovery partition You do not have to upgrade your datastores to enable this functionality. Simply upgrading your host to vSphere 6.5 or above provides the capability to hot-extend past 2TB. If you have been wondering why you should upgrade to vSphere 6.5, one of the many storage enhancements allows you to hot-extend a virtual disk past 2TB without having to power off the virtual machine! Of course, expanding the disk within the OS will be dependent on the OS’ capabilities. If you’ve ever tried to hot-extend a virtual disk to over 2TB, you received an error. Extending drive under 2TB is no problem, it’s when you reach that maximum limit in vSphere 5.x or 6 where hot-extending past 2TB is not supported. This can be a significant impact on business and may well result in disruptions to productivity. Many IT administrators have run into the issue of not being able to hot-extend a virtual disk past 2TB without first having to power off the VM. No Problem extending VM disks past 2TB, just upgrade to vSphere 6.5 or above!
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