Shrink Volume can only make Unallocated space on the right side when shrinking a partition.Like primary partition, a logical partition can be used to install Windows and save any other types of files, but it cannot be set as Active. Logical Partition is the just part of the Extended partition and simulated as a drive.The system reserved and other partitions that are created by Windows must be Primary, otherwise, you cannot boot Windows. Primary Partition is the hard disk partition where both Windows OS and other data can be stored, and it is the only partition that can be set Active attribute.In this article, I'll introduce how to resize primary partition in Windows 10 with Disk Management, and the alternative method when it cannot extend a primary partition. To resize and extend primary partition on Windows 10, the native Disk Management is an option, but not all partition can be resized due to some restrictions. However, whether it is possible and safe depends on the tool your are using. It can't be better if you resize and extend a partition when it runs out of disk space.
