Reformat EHD which has 3 partitions.


  1. RagTag
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    Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit SP1
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    Reformat EHD which has 3 partitions.


    I have a 500GB external hard drive which, when new, I reformatted (using another piece of software) to NTFS and partitioned it into 3 partitions, which were assigned the letters K, L and M. At the time I did this I was running Win XP.

    I now have a different PC running Win 7 Home Premium 64bit and want to reformat the EHD, wiping it clean and removing 2 of the partitions to make it just the 1 in order to make a fresh start.

    Can anyone advise me how to go about this preferably without needing to access any other software.

    Thank you so much.
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  3. Britton30
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    Plug in the external drive and go to Computer. Right click the drive and click Format, that will do the format and remove the partitions.
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  4. mmkarimi
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    get "MiniTool Partition Wizard Portable" you can do that in a few steps there with a great easy interface
    Get it from: MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition - CNET Download.com
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  6. RagTag
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    Thank you Britton30. I eventually managed it. I had trouble deleting the 2 partitions I wanted rid of but that was down really to my ignorance and inexperience.
    Anyway everything is ok now and I can set about copying the stuff over which I want saved.

    Thanks again for pointing me in the right direction...
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  7. mmkarimi
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    formatting the HDD wont change the partition structure, but can help you to clean up your storage,
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  8. Britton30
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    Glad to help, let us know if other help is needed.
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