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How do you solve the issue when there is not enough space available on the disk(s) to complete this operation? How to solve this issue? This post discusses this issue from 4 aspects and recommends an all-in-one partition magic to all of you.

As we know, Windows 10/8/7 or Windows Vista users can turn to disk management tool instead of third-party partition software to create partition, extend partition, or shrink partition. However, this tool has great limitations, and many users report that they failed to manage partitions with it.

Let’s see a true story:

I deleted a partition of 97.66GB which was drive D. Instead of going into unallocated space, it became free space and my drive E (151.59GB) becomes D. When I tried to create a simple volume, it gives an error that «there is not enough space available on the disk(s) to complete this operation».

Now, in this situation, what should we do? Do you know how to remove this error?

Here, if you are among the ones who are given a warning message like this, please don’t feel panic. You can find answers in this post.

Next, let’s analyze the details.

Part 1. Not Enough Space Available on The Disk to Create Partition

Sometimes, if you plan to create a new partition on free space by using Windows built-in disk management tool, you could receive this warning:

“There is not enough space available on the disk(s) to complete this operation.”

Reasons for this Error

In fact, when creating new partition on free space with disk management you may receive the «not enough space available on the disk» error. It is mainly because of the limitation of Extended Partition and disk management tool. This Extended boot record post will show you more information about extended partition.

Solutions for Not Enough Space Available on the Disk

In this case, you have 2 options.

Option 1: You can delete this free space to get unallocated space, and then crate a new one on this unallocated space with disk management.

Option 2: You can try using a piece of professional yet free partitioning management software to remove this error and then reuse the free space again. MiniTool Partition Wizard is recommended here since it offers complete functions and simple operations.

If you have doubts about this professional freeware, download it and try it out.

Now, let’s see the detailed steps.

First run Free MiniTool Partition Wizard to get its starting interface and choose «Launch Application» to get its main interface. (Tip: the «Launch Application» option appears in the free version only.)

Second, select or right-click the free space you want to use and activate Create Partition function.

Then, set parameters for new partition, and press «OK» to move on.

Finally, click «Apply» in tool bar to confirm changes.

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I used this tool in the following video to solve the above error when creating partition.

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Part 2. Not Enough Space Available on The Disk to Shrink Volume

When you try to shrink a volume with disk management, you may get the following error:

«There is not enough space available on the disk(s) to complete this operation.»

Or, disk management only shows a little space that allows you to shrink when there is actually a lot of free space.

Reasons for this Error

Some applications might have made some changes to your partitions at the instant that you open disk management tool, thus making the status shown in disk management different from what it really is.

As a result, you will receive the error while extending partition. Additionally, if the volume contains unmovable files that are located in the middle of the hard disk, you won’t be able to shrink it. If there are page files or other unmovable/locked system files at the end of the volume, it might also cause the error.

For more information, please read our previous post Why Windows 7 Can’t Reduce Partition Size and How to Solve It.

Solutions for Not Enough Space Available on the Disk

Method 1: Rescan disks

In most of the cases, you can simply right click on disk management and select Rescan Disks under Action tab to fix this problem. After the partitions and volumes are reloaded, you will be able to shrink the volume.

However, rescan disks does not work in all cases! If you still cannot shrink volume, you can try using the following method. Want to know the best solution?

Method 2: Use professional partition management freeware

MiniTool Partition Wizard, a piece of professional freeware works on Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10, can easily and quickly shrink partition. Launch this freeware.

Then, select the needed partition you want to operate and choose «Move/Resize Partition» from the left action panel or «Move/Resize» from tool bar.

Now, shorten the length of partition handle to shrink partition. After getting desired partition size, click «OK» to go back to the main interface.

Note: In Move/Resize Partition interface you can see the option «Using Enhanced Data Protecting Mode» which is checked by default. Please keep it checked since it gives the strongest protections to your data.

Finally, click «Apply» button to perform all changes.

Thus, all work has been done.

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I easily solved the «not enough space to shrink volume» issue.

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Part 3. Not Enough Space Available on The Disk to Extend Volume

As time goes by, your partition may be in low disk space due to caches, temporary files, or other programs in Windows Server 2012, and you can use «Extend Volume» provided by disk management to increase its size.

However, you may run into the following error, even the additional space is shown in your disk management:

«There is not enough space available on the disk(s) to complete this operation.»

Well, it turns out that a lot of Server users have been troubled by this issue. Once this error happens, it is not possible to use disk management or diskpart.exe to extend volume. Nevertheless, we are going to show you how to fix this error.

To solve this, right click on disk management to Rescan Disks may help, but not helpful for each time. In this situation, can you still squeeze free space and extend the volume that is lacking free space?

The answer is yes!

MiniTool Partition Wizard, professional partitioning tool, can easily and effectively change partition size without affecting the original data.

The free edition of MiniTool Partition Wizard doesn’t support Windows Server OS. Right now, to fix this error, you need to choose server edition or advanced edition. Comparison of MiniTool Partition Software will help you find the right tool.

In the main interface of this software, select the target partition and then activate Move/Resize Partition or Extend Partition feature.

Here, we take «Extend Partition» for example since it can borrow free space from any other existing partitions or unallocated spaces on the same disk. Now, open the drop-down list of «Take Free Space from» and choose an existing partition or unallocated space to take free space. Then, drag the sliding handle leftwards or rightwards to decide how much free space to take, with partition size changing intuitively. Next, click “OK”.

Finally, click «Apply» button on the top left corner to apply the change.

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Part 4. Not Enough Space Available on The Disk to Convert Basic Disk to Dynamic

Sometimes, because of the occupational requirement, you need to convert your basic disk to dynamic disk. The What Are Basic and Dynamic Disks? Features for Dynamic/Basic Disks post will show you more information about the 2 types of hard disk configurations.

Also, disk management tool can convert a basic disk to dynamic without data loss. Detailed steps are: right click the basic disk, choose «Convert to Dynamic Disk» from the popup menu, and then follow the instructions on your screen.

However, sometimes, when converting basic disk to dynamic, you may be troubled by the error:

This will appear if there is no enough free space that is not partitioned at the end of the disk to create the database for the dynamic disk. To fix the error, you need to shrink the last partition to create such a space via the feature «Shrink Volume».

What We Learned

After talking so much about the error «There is not enough space available on the disk(s) to complete this operation», I think you will agree with me when I say:

To manage hard disk partitions, you had better turn to third-party professional partitioning software instead of Windows built-in disk management tool. 

Well, it turns out that more and more users are starting to prefer using MiniTool Partition Wizard to manage their partitions. Next we will show you why this tool is better than Windows built-in tool.

Although disk management can manage partitions, it has great limitations. Its «Extend Volume» feature only works with unallocated space on the right side of the partition you like to extend.

Besides, if you turn to this tool to change your volume size (extending volume or shrinking volume), create new volume or do some other operations, you may get this not enough space available error message.

However, with MiniTool Partition Wizard, you can easily and effectively resize partition, create partition, delete partitions and more. Moreover, this tool also contains some other advanced features to help you perfectly manage partitions, including:

Migrate OS to SSD/HHD: can help you easily transfer OS to shorten the boot time and enhance the performance of computer. 

Partition Recovery: helps recover partition which is lost due to mistaken deletion, virus attack, wrong ghost, sudden power outage, incorrect partitioning, etc. 

Rebuild MBR: is designed to rebuild MBR in quite simple operations when Windows cannot boot. 

Convert MBR Disk to GPT Disk: can help you create up to 128 partitions on GPT disk, and break the 2TB limit in Master Boot Record (MBR). 

Copy Disk: is able to copy all partitions and data from one disk to another in several steps in case of accidents.

Bottom Line

In this post, we mainly talk about the error «there is not enough space available on the disk(s) to complete this operation», and why this error appears, and how to solve this error.

If you have any doubts or problems, please feel free to leave us your comments or directly send to [email protected]. We will try our best to help you get out of trouble. Much appreciated!

While creating a partition on a hard disk by using the Diskpart utility, some users encountered the error “There is not enough usable space for this operation.” According to the error message, you are unable to create a new partition because of the lack of usable space on your hard disk. In this article, we will see how to deal with this error to get the issue fixed.

The complete error message displayed by the Diskpart utility could be either of the two:

There is not enough usable space on specified disks to extend the volume

There is not enough usable space for this operation

If Diskpart is showing the “Virtual Disk Service error: There is not enough usable space for this operation” while creating a new partition, the following solutions may help you fix the problem:

1. Check the partition style of your Disk
2. Rescan your disk
3. Shrink the partition on your hard drive
4. Use a third-party tool

1] Check the partition style of your disk

One possible cause of this error is the limitation of an MBR disk. If the disk installed on your system uses the Master Boot Record, you will not create more than 4 partitions on your disk. Whereas, in the GPT partition, there is no such limit. You can create unlimited partitions on a GPT disk, but Windows allows only up to 128 partitions on a GPT disk.

Check the partition style of your hard disk. To do so, follow the steps below:

1. Launch the Run command box.
2. Type diskmgmt.msc and click OK.
3. The above command will open the Disk Management tool.
4. Right-click on your hard disk and select Properties.
5. Select the Volumes tab. You will see the partition style of your hard disk.

If the partition style of your hard disk is MBR and you already have 4 partitions on it, you have to convert it into GPT to create more partitions. Do note that the conversion is possible only if the hard disk contains no partitions or volumes. If your hard disk contains any partitions, you have to delete them before converting MBR into GPT. This action will also erase all the data on your hard disk. That’s why we suggest you backup all your data on an external hard disk.

The GPT disks use Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) BIOS mode. You can check your BIOS mode in the System Information. If your BIOS supports both legacy and UEFI modes but it is set to the legacy mode, you can convert it to UEFI.

After converting your hard disk from MBR to GPT, check if the Diskpart is showing the same error while creating partitions.

2] Rescan your disk

The Rescan command helps you detect new disks added to your computer. When you run this command, it detects the configuration changes on your hard disk and updates the information. You can try running this command in Diskpart and see if it helps. Follow the steps below:

1. Open Command Prompt as an administrator.
2. Type Diskpart and press Enter.
3. Type Rescan and press Enter.

After rescanning your disks, check if the issue persists.

3] Shrink the partition on your hard drive

According to the error, your disk does not have enough usable space. To fix this problem, you can shrink a partition to leave unallocated space. After shrinking the partition, you should be able to create a new partition. The steps to do this are written below:

1. Open Command Prompt as an administrator.
2. Type Diskpart.
3. Type select disk #. Replace # with the disk number. For example, if you want to create a partition on disk 0, you have to type select disk 0 and press Enter.
4. Now, you have to select the partition on your hard disk which you want to shrink. For this, type list par and press Enter. This command will list all the partitions on your hard disk.
5. Now, type sel par #. Replace # with the partition number on your hard disk. After selecting a particular partition, say, partition 3, you will see a message “Partition 3 is now the selected partition.”
6. Type shrink desired=size minimum=size. After that hit Enter. Replace the string size in the command with the actual size on the disk that you want to shrink. The size that you enter to shrink the volume should be less than the total size of the selected partition. For example, if the total size of the selected partition is 16 GB, the size to shrink the partition should be less than 16 GB.
7. After the above command is executed successfully, a partition with unallocated space will be created. You can view this unallocated space in Disk Management.
8. To make the unallocated space usable, you have to format it. Type fs=ntfs quick and press Enter.
9. Wait till the formatting process gets completed.

After the formatting gets completed, a partition of the desired size is created. In step 6 above, we have used the command shrink desired=size minimum=size. This command consists of two values, namely, desired and minimum. Let’s see the meaning and purpose of each of these values.

• Desired: This represents the actual amount of space that you want on your partition.
• Minimum: It represents the minimum space on the selected partition.

If the size entered in the desired value is not possible to create, Windows will create the partition of the size that you enter in the minimum value. You can also enter the same size in both of these values.

Read: Diskpart error, The device does not recognize the command.

4] Use a third-party tool

You can also use a third-party tool to create partitions on your hard drive. If you search online, you will find many disk and partition manager tools that come with both free and paid plans.

Related:

• Diskpart Virtual Disk Service error. The operation timed out
• Diskpart Virtual Disk Service Error, The volume size is too big
• Diskpart Virtual Disk Service error, The file system is incompatible
• Diskpart Virtual Disk Service error. Delete is not allowed on the current boot, system, pagefile, crashdump or hibernation volume
• Diskpart Virtual Disk Service error, The operation is not supported by the object
• Diskpart Virtual Disk Service error, The specified disk is not convertible

How do you fix the virtual disk service error the specified disk is not convertible?

You may see an error message “The specified disk is not convertible” while converting an MBR disk into GPT by using the Diskpart utility. The complete error message is:

Virtual Disk Service error:
The specified disk is not convertible.

According to the error message, the disk you want to convert from MBR into GPT is not convertible. To fix this error, you should know what an MBR partition style is and what a GPT partition style is. If you want to convert an MBR disc into a GPT, your BIOS should support the UEFI mode. This is because the GPT disks use Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) BIOS mode.

If you are getting this error message, first check your system’s BIOS mode. If it shows legacy mode, convert it into the UEFI mode. To know the BIOS mode, click on Windows Search and type System Information, then select the System Information app from the search results. In the System Information app, you will see your BIOS made on the right pane.

If your BIOS supports both legacy and UEFI modes, you will be able to convert legacy to UEFI. If your BIOS mode is already set to UEFI, but you are still getting this error message, you can use a third-party tool or software, like Minitool partition wizard to convert MBR to GPT.

Read: DiskPart error, Data error Cyclic redundancy check.

How do I fix the virtual disk service error volume size is too big?

The virtual disk service error volume size is too big usually occurs when you format a particular disk drive by using a FAT32 file system. In such a case, you can try another file system to format the disk drive, like NTFS. There are several limitations of the FAT32 file system. The maximum file size limit for the FAT32 file system is 4 GB. This is the reason why Diskpart displays this error while formatting a disk drive of large size by using the FAT32 file system.

Read next: Diskpart has encountered an error, The media is write-protected.

While creating a partition on a hard disk by using the Diskpart utility, some users encountered the error “There is not enough usable space for this operation.” According to the error message, you are unable to create a new partition because of the lack of usable space on your hard disk. In this article, we will see how to deal with this error to get the issue fixed.

The complete error message displayed by the Diskpart utility could be either of the two:

There is not enough usable space on specified disks to extend the volume

There is not enough usable space for this operation

If Diskpart is showing the “Virtual Disk Service error: There is not enough usable space for this operation” while creating a new partition, the following solutions may help you fix the problem:

1. Check the partition style of your Disk
2. Rescan your disk
3. Shrink the partition on your hard drive
4. Use a third-party tool

1] Check the partition style of your disk

One possible cause of this error is the limitation of an MBR disk. If the disk installed on your system uses the Master Boot Record, you will not create more than 4 partitions on your disk. Whereas, in the GPT partition, there is no such limit. You can create unlimited partitions on a GPT disk, but Windows allows only up to 128 partitions on a GPT disk.

Check the partition style of your hard disk. To do so, follow the steps below:

1. Launch the Run command box.
2. Type diskmgmt.msc and click OK.
3. The above command will open the Disk Management tool.
4. Right-click on your hard disk and select Properties.
5. Select the Volumes tab. You will see the partition style of your hard disk.

If the partition style of your hard disk is MBR and you already have 4 partitions on it, you have to convert it into GPT to create more partitions. Do note that the conversion is possible only if the hard disk contains no partitions or volumes. If your hard disk contains any partitions, you have to delete them before converting MBR into GPT. This action will also erase all the data on your hard disk. That’s why we suggest you backup all your data on an external hard disk.

The GPT disks use Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) BIOS mode. You can check your BIOS mode in the System Information. If your BIOS supports both legacy and UEFI modes but it is set to the legacy mode, you can convert it to UEFI.

After converting your hard disk from MBR to GPT, check if the Diskpart is showing the same error while creating partitions.

2] Rescan your disk

The Rescan command helps you detect new disks added to your computer. When you run this command, it detects the configuration changes on your hard disk and updates the information. You can try running this command in Diskpart and see if it helps. Follow the steps below:

1. Open Command Prompt as an administrator.
2. Type Diskpart and press Enter.
3. Type Rescan and press Enter.

After rescanning your disks, check if the issue persists.

3] Shrink the partition on your hard drive

According to the error, your disk does not have enough usable space. To fix this problem, you can shrink a partition to leave unallocated space. After shrinking the partition, you should be able to create a new partition. The steps to do this are written below:

1. Open Command Prompt as an administrator.
2. Type Diskpart.
3. Type select disk #. Replace # with the disk number. For example, if you want to create a partition on disk 0, you have to type select disk 0 and press Enter.
4. Now, you have to select the partition on your hard disk which you want to shrink. For this, type list par and press Enter. This command will list all the partitions on your hard disk.
5. Now, type sel par #. Replace # with the partition number on your hard disk. After selecting a particular partition, say, partition 3, you will see a message “Partition 3 is now the selected partition.”
6. Type shrink desired=size minimum=size. After that hit Enter. Replace the string size in the command with the actual size on the disk that you want to shrink. The size that you enter to shrink the volume should be less than the total size of the selected partition. For example, if the total size of the selected partition is 16 GB, the size to shrink the partition should be less than 16 GB.
7. After the above command is executed successfully, a partition with unallocated space will be created. You can view this unallocated space in Disk Management.
8. To make the unallocated space usable, you have to format it. Type fs=ntfs quick and press Enter.
9. Wait till the formatting process gets completed.

After the formatting gets completed, a partition of the desired size is created. In step 6 above, we have used the command shrink desired=size minimum=size. This command consists of two values, namely, desired and minimum. Let’s see the meaning and purpose of each of these values.

• Desired: This represents the actual amount of space that you want on your partition.
• Minimum: It represents the minimum space on the selected partition.

If the size entered in the desired value is not possible to create, Windows will create the partition of the size that you enter in the minimum value. You can also enter the same size in both of these values.

Read: Diskpart error, The device does not recognize the command.

4] Use a third-party tool

You can also use a third-party tool to create partitions on your hard drive. If you search online, you will find many disk and partition manager tools that come with both free and paid plans.

Related:

• Diskpart Virtual Disk Service error. The operation timed out
• Diskpart Virtual Disk Service Error, The volume size is too big
• Diskpart Virtual Disk Service error, The file system is incompatible
• Diskpart Virtual Disk Service error. Delete is not allowed on the current boot, system, pagefile, crashdump or hibernation volume
• Diskpart Virtual Disk Service error, The operation is not supported by the object
• Diskpart Virtual Disk Service error, The specified disk is not convertible

How do you fix the virtual disk service error the specified disk is not convertible?

You may see an error message “The specified disk is not convertible” while converting an MBR disk into GPT by using the Diskpart utility. The complete error message is:

Virtual Disk Service error:
The specified disk is not convertible.

According to the error message, the disk you want to convert from MBR into GPT is not convertible. To fix this error, you should know what an MBR partition style is and what a GPT partition style is. If you want to convert an MBR disc into a GPT, your BIOS should support the UEFI mode. This is because the GPT disks use Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) BIOS mode.

If you are getting this error message, first check your system’s BIOS mode. If it shows legacy mode, convert it into the UEFI mode. To know the BIOS mode, click on Windows Search and type System Information, then select the System Information app from the search results. In the System Information app, you will see your BIOS made on the right pane.

If your BIOS supports both legacy and UEFI modes, you will be able to convert legacy to UEFI. If your BIOS mode is already set to UEFI, but you are still getting this error message, you can use a third-party tool or software, like Minitool partition wizard to convert MBR to GPT.

Read: DiskPart error, Data error Cyclic redundancy check.

How do I fix the virtual disk service error volume size is too big?

The virtual disk service error volume size is too big usually occurs when you format a particular disk drive by using a FAT32 file system. In such a case, you can try another file system to format the disk drive, like NTFS. There are several limitations of the FAT32 file system. The maximum file size limit for the FAT32 file system is 4 GB. This is the reason why Diskpart displays this error while formatting a disk drive of large size by using the FAT32 file system.

Read next: Diskpart has encountered an error, The media is write-protected.

How do you solve the issue when there is not enough space available on the disk(s) to complete this operation? How to solve this issue? This post discusses this issue from 4 aspects and recommends an all-in-one partition magic to all of you.

As we know, Windows 10/8/7 or Windows Vista users can turn to disk management tool instead of third-party partition software to create partition, extend partition, or shrink partition. However, this tool has great limitations, and many users report that they failed to manage partitions with it.

Let’s see a true story:

I deleted a partition of 97.66GB which was drive D. Instead of going into unallocated space, it became free space and my drive E (151.59GB) becomes D. When I tried to create a simple volume, it gives an error that «there is not enough space available on the disk(s) to complete this operation».

Now, in this situation, what should we do? Do you know how to remove this error?

Here, if you are among the ones who are given a warning message like this, please don’t feel panic. You can find answers in this post.

Next, let’s analyze the details.

Part 1. Not Enough Space Available on The Disk to Create Partition

Sometimes, if you plan to create a new partition on free space by using Windows built-in disk management tool, you could receive this warning:

“There is not enough space available on the disk(s) to complete this operation.”

Reasons for this Error

In fact, when creating new partition on free space with disk management you may receive the «not enough space available on the disk» error. It is mainly because of the limitation of Extended Partition and disk management tool. This Extended boot record post will show you more information about extended partition.

Solutions for Not Enough Space Available on the Disk

In this case, you have 2 options.

Option 1: You can delete this free space to get unallocated space, and then crate a new one on this unallocated space with disk management.

Option 2: You can try using a piece of professional yet free partitioning management software to remove this error and then reuse the free space again. MiniTool Partition Wizard is recommended here since it offers complete functions and simple operations.

If you have doubts about this professional freeware, download it and try it out.

Now, let’s see the detailed steps.

First run Free MiniTool Partition Wizard to get its starting interface and choose «Launch Application» to get its main interface. (Tip: the «Launch Application» option appears in the free version only.)

Second, select or right-click the free space you want to use and activate Create Partition function.

Then, set parameters for new partition, and press «OK» to move on.

Finally, click «Apply» in tool bar to confirm changes.

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I used this tool in the following video to solve the above error when creating partition.

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Part 2. Not Enough Space Available on The Disk to Shrink Volume

When you try to shrink a volume with disk management, you may get the following error:

«There is not enough space available on the disk(s) to complete this operation.»

Or, disk management only shows a little space that allows you to shrink when there is actually a lot of free space.

Reasons for this Error

Some applications might have made some changes to your partitions at the instant that you open disk management tool, thus making the status shown in disk management different from what it really is.

As a result, you will receive the error while extending partition. Additionally, if the volume contains unmovable files that are located in the middle of the hard disk, you won’t be able to shrink it. If there are page files or other unmovable/locked system files at the end of the volume, it might also cause the error.

For more information, please read our previous post Why Windows 7 Can’t Reduce Partition Size and How to Solve It.

Solutions for Not Enough Space Available on the Disk

Method 1: Rescan disks

In most of the cases, you can simply right click on disk management and select Rescan Disks under Action tab to fix this problem. After the partitions and volumes are reloaded, you will be able to shrink the volume.

However, rescan disks does not work in all cases! If you still cannot shrink volume, you can try using the following method. Want to know the best solution?

Method 2: Use professional partition management freeware

MiniTool Partition Wizard, a piece of professional freeware works on Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10, can easily and quickly shrink partition. Launch this freeware.

Then, select the needed partition you want to operate and choose «Move/Resize Partition» from the left action panel or «Move/Resize» from tool bar.

Now, shorten the length of partition handle to shrink partition. After getting desired partition size, click «OK» to go back to the main interface.

Finally, click «Apply» button to perform all changes.

Thus, all work has been done.

Video Watch

I easily solved the «not enough space to shrink volume» issue.

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Part 3. Not Enough Space Available on The Disk to Extend Volume

As time goes by, your partition may be in low disk space due to caches, temporary files, or other programs in Windows Server 2012, and you can use «Extend Volume» provided by disk management to increase its size.

However, you may run into the following error, even the additional space is shown in your disk management:

«There is not enough space available on the disk(s) to complete this operation.»

Well, it turns out that a lot of Server users have been troubled by this issue. Once this error happens, it is not possible to use disk management or diskpart.exe to extend volume. Nevertheless, we are going to show you how to fix this error.

To solve this, right click on disk management to Rescan Disks may help, but not helpful for each time. In this situation, can you still squeeze free space and extend the volume that is lacking free space?

The answer is yes!

MiniTool Partition Wizard, professional partitioning tool, can easily and effectively change partition size without affecting the original data.

The free edition of MiniTool Partition Wizard doesn’t support Windows Server OS. Right now, to fix this error, you need to choose server edition or advanced edition. Comparison of MiniTool Partition Software will help you find the right tool.

In the main interface of this software, select the target partition and then activate Move/Resize Partition or Extend Partition feature.

Here, we take «Extend Partition» for example since it can borrow free space from any other existing partitions or unallocated spaces on the same disk. Now, open the drop-down list of «Take Free Space from» and choose an existing partition or unallocated space to take free space. Then, drag the sliding handle leftwards or rightwards to decide how much free space to take, with partition size changing intuitively. Next, click “OK”.

Finally, click «Apply» button on the top left corner to apply the change.

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Part 4. Not Enough Space Available on The Disk to Convert Basic Disk to Dynamic

Sometimes, because of the occupational requirement, you need to convert your basic disk to dynamic disk. The What Are Basic and Dynamic Disks? Features for Dynamic/Basic Disks post will show you more information about the 2 types of hard disk configurations.

Also, disk management tool can convert a basic disk to dynamic without data loss. Detailed steps are: right click the basic disk, choose «Convert to Dynamic Disk» from the popup menu, and then follow the instructions on your screen.

However, sometimes, when converting basic disk to dynamic, you may be troubled by the error:

This will appear if there is no enough free space that is not partitioned at the end of the disk to create the database for the dynamic disk. To fix the error, you need to shrink the last partition to create such a space via the feature «Shrink Volume».

What We Learned

After talking so much about the error «There is not enough space available on the disk(s) to complete this operation», I think you will agree with me when I say:

To manage hard disk partitions, you had better turn to third-party professional partitioning software instead of Windows built-in disk management tool. 

Well, it turns out that more and more users are starting to prefer using MiniTool Partition Wizard to manage their partitions. Next we will show you why this tool is better than Windows built-in tool.

Although disk management can manage partitions, it has great limitations. Its «Extend Volume» feature only works with unallocated space on the right side of the partition you like to extend.

Besides, if you turn to this tool to change your volume size (extending volume or shrinking volume), create new volume or do some other operations, you may get this not enough space available error message.

However, with MiniTool Partition Wizard, you can easily and effectively resize partition, create partition, delete partitions and more. Moreover, this tool also contains some other advanced features to help you perfectly manage partitions, including:

Migrate OS to SSD/HHD: can help you easily transfer OS to shorten the boot time and enhance the performance of computer. 

Partition Recovery: helps recover partition which is lost due to mistaken deletion, virus attack, wrong ghost, sudden power outage, incorrect partitioning, etc. 

Rebuild MBR: is designed to rebuild MBR in quite simple operations when Windows cannot boot. 

Convert MBR Disk to GPT Disk: can help you create up to 128 partitions on GPT disk, and break the 2TB limit in Master Boot Record (MBR). 

Copy Disk: is able to copy all partitions and data from one disk to another in several steps in case of accidents.

Bottom Line

In this post, we mainly talk about the error «there is not enough space available on the disk(s) to complete this operation», and why this error appears, and how to solve this error.

If you have any doubts or problems, please feel free to leave us your comments or directly send to [email protected]. We will try our best to help you get out of trouble. Much appreciated!