Solved Reformat EHD which has 3 partitions.

[RagTag]

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.

 

[Britton30]

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.

 

[mmkarimi]

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

 

[RagTag]

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...

 

[mmkarimi]

formatting the HDD wont change the partition structure, but can help you to clean up your storage,

 

[Britton30]

Glad to help, let us know if other help is needed.