This article explains how to delete a recovery partition in Windows 11, 10, 8, and 7. It also explains how to format and extend a partition to utilize the unallocated space.

China, 10th Sep 2024 - The "Extend Volume" option in the Disk Management tool is only accessible if there is contiguous unallocated space located behind the volume you wish to extend ...

Use Gparted live to move partition to beggining. To resize over empty you can use disk management or diskpart in administrative mode command prompt.

When I manually set it to the original 10GB, it left some unallocated space BEFORE the next partition which is my boot partition.<BR><BR>The Disk Management in Vista isn't letting me extend my ...

After that, delete the partition you want to install Windows to create an unallocated space. Select the partition with an unallocated space and proceed with the Windows installation.

It can be tricky to manage disk partitions in Windows. Perhaps you want to boot two operating systems simultaneously, or maybe you don't want to reinstall Windows when partitioning a hard disk.

Once you successfully create the partition, you can easily format unallocated space on the USB drive or SD card. When done, you can check to see if the issue is resolved.