Windows won't let me shrink or extend a volume?!

[axels01]

I bought a 32gb usb stick about one and a half year ago and it went bust just today and the warranty as expired. So I decided to open it up to have a look at things, and I noticed that there was a 64gb Micro SD card inside of the USB stick. I took the microSD car and put it in my pc and I was able to access the not so important files on it. But now when I went into the disk manager it has 32gb allocated and 32gb unallocated but when I right click on the allocated partition the "Expand Partition" option was grey and I could not click it. Is there any way to do anything about it? Thanks for any advice!!

 

[Hlsgsz]

Use this instead: http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx

 

[USAFRet]

It's not windows that won't let you, it is the crappy construction of that USB/MicroSD thing.

Could be for a number of reasons:
How is it formatted? Fat32? If so, then all you will see is 32GB.

Wipe ALL partitions, reformat, and see what happens.

 

[Multipack]

FAT32 has a max size of 32GB, and a lot of flash drives would be that format. Try backing up the accessible partition, delete it then try the other one.

 

[jlr0042]

Windows doesn't allow you partition USB drives, you will have to use a third party application to partition the USB drive. You can use the tutorial here, which shows you how to "partition" the drive with BOOTICE, but you can only view one partition at a time and must use the program in order to switch to another partition to access it.

 

[EDab]

Normally, there are 3 situations that"Extend Volume" will be grayed out:
1.The partition users want to extend is not a NTFS partition. Microsoft says extending volume feature in Disk Management only works to a raw or NTFS partition.
2.There is no unallocated or free space on hard disk or the space is not contiguous and after the partition which needs extending.
3.Users want to extend a primary partition, but, instead of unallocated space, there is just a free space right after the target partition.
it would be better if you attach a screenshot of your Disk Management.