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Many people like to shrink partition with Windows 2012 R2 Disk Management because this solution does not cause any data loss. If there is no unallocated space, it is easy to get some by deleting or shrinking partition.

(You may convert it to GPT disk to get it extended.)

The disk is less than 2TB that is built with MBR and cannot be extended over 2TB.

The volume you want to extend is not with NTFS filesystem (a fat32 volume is not supported with extend volume in disk management -> We would introduce ways to get it fixed.).

The unallocated space is not contiguous to the partition you want to extend (this could be moved by software).

There is no unallocated space on the same hard disk.

Usually, the extend volume shows grayed out in following situations: Symptoms&Causes of Extend Volume Grayed out This guide can be applied to all Windows Server extend volume greyed out issue, not only limited to a specific server version.