Deleting partitions, Format the whole drive...

Ok, I have my WD 160GB Vraptor partition and dual booting Vista & Win 7 ultimate x64. Disk 0

My 750GB Samsung used to be my old XP + Vista dual booting and it is partitioned as such. Disk 1

I have finished transfering all the pertinent data to my USB WD 320Gb Passport so now I want to format the whole drive and leave it as Back-Up for Data, Videos & Music + the ocassional game that doesn't fit on my Primary drive.

Here's the kicker, I am new to Vista & 7, if I remember correctly, in XP I used to go to Disk managment, select the disk and tell it to format it and it was done (I never did this often so I could be confused).

At any rate, the choices I get with Win 7 are:

1. If I right click on Disk 1, my only choices are... Convert to Dynamic Disk or Offline
2. Right clicking on either of the other Disk 1 partitions gives me more choices... Format, Shrink or Delete volume

My issue is that I do not want to have 2 more partitions but a full drive. I am sure that one of those options is the one I may need but I just don't know which one to choose and I really hate to work twice (if not more) to get to where I want to go.

any help tips or directions you guy may want to throw my way?

Thanks and May the force be with you

P.S.: I think I am over thiking this and as soon as I delete the volume, the partitions will go away and I am going to end where I want but I just like to be sure.

Hi,

If you want to have DISK 1 as just one partition ( or make a clean start and then have 2 or 3 freshly formatted ones):

In Disk Management, right click each partition and delete.

You will then have unallocated space - you can rt click that and create and format new partitions of your chosen size - or just make one.

AstaLaVista said:

Ok, I have my WD 160GB Vraptor partition and dual booting Vista & Win 7 ultimate x64. Disk 0

My 750GB Samsung used to be my old XP + Vista dual booting and it is partitioned as such. Disk 1

I have finished transfering all the pertinent data to my USB WD 320Gb Passport so now I want to format the whole drive and leave it as Back-Up for Data, Videos & Music + the ocassional game that doesn't fit on my Primary drive.

Here's the kicker, I am new to Vista & 7, if I remember correctly, in XP I used to go to Disk managment, select the disk and tell it to format it and it was done (I never did this often so I could be confused).

At any rate, the choices I get with Win 7 are:

1. If I right click on Disk 1, my only choices are... Convert to Dynamic Disk or Offline
2. Right clicking on either of the other Disk 1 partitions gives me more choices... Format, Shrink or Delete volume

My issue is that I do not want to have 2 more partitions but a full drive. I am sure that one of those options is the one I may need but I just don't know which one to choose and I really hate to work twice (if not more) to get to where I want to go.

any help tips or directions you guy may want to throw my way?

Thanks and May the force be with you
P.S.: I think I am over thiking this and as soon as I delete the volume, the partitions will go away and I am going to end where I want but I just like to be sure.

I find that the integrated disk mgr is limited. I use a 3rd party app called paragon disk suite 2009. the trial is free and will do anything.

Hope this helps
K

ok, thanks folks, just what I thought about deleting but now, I know that for a fact and feel better for it