Help: Deleting partitions on external hard disk

[Stu]

Hi

I have rescued my old 30Gb desktop hard disk drive and attached it to my
laptop using a firewire based adaptor. It works very well, but I wish to
free up some space on it.

The drive in question is split into a C:, D: and E: partitions that I wish
to preserve, along with 3 Linux partitions that I would like to remove and
restore to FAT32 (or something).

So...I go to Disk Manager, which lists all the partitions, including the
three Linux partitions, marked Healthy (Unknown Partition): 2.69Gb, 243Mband
1.74Gb

Now what? Can I right click and delete? Will I get the space back? What
will happen!!!??

Thanks in advance,

Stu

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Stu,

Right-click and delete. Once removed, you can create new partitions in the
free space. You cannot expand the existing ones to encompass the free space
without getting additional partitioning software.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone

 

[Stu]

Hi Stu,

Right-click and delete. Once removed, you can create new partitions in the
free space. You cannot expand the existing ones to encompass the free space
without getting additional partitioning software.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone

Thanks - I gave it a go and it worked like a dream.