Using Diskpart

[Bill W]

I had purchased and installed a 120 Gb external USB hard drive. I then
converted it to NTFS. Upon using Disk Management, I found that a 15 GB NTFS
partition was formed and the remaining space was listed as unallocated. I
tried to research the problem and found that using Diskpart.exe was the
solution. However, I am having a problem writing the correct command using
the "extend" command. I want to extend the NTFS partition to encompass the
entire disk space. I appreciate any help.

Regards,
Bill

 

[Nepatsfan]

I had purchased and installed a 120 Gb external USB hard
drive. I then converted it to NTFS. Upon using Disk
Management, I found that a 15 GB NTFS partition was formed
and the remaining space was listed as unallocated. I tried
to research the problem and found that using Diskpart.exe
was the solution. However, I am having a problem writing
the correct command using the "extend" command. I want to
extend the NTFS partition to encompass the entire disk
space. I appreciate any help.
Regards,
Bill

Go back to Disk Management and delete the 15 GB partition so
that the entire drive is unallocated space. Once that is done,
create a partition that includes the entire drive, if that's
what you want. You can then format that partition NTFS.

The reason you're not able to "extend" the 15 GB partition is
twofold;
1. You can only extend a volume on a dynamic disk. If you look
in Disk Management you'll see your USB drive is a basic disk.
2. You cannot, nor would there be any reason to, make an
external drive a dynamic disk. External USB drives can only be
basic disks.

Good luck

Nepatsfan

 

[Bill W]

Thanks for your help.

Regards,
Bill

 

[Nepatsfan]

Thanks for your help.

Regards,
Bill

You're welcome.

Nepatsfan