Hard Drive Question

[Footballmad1973]

I have a 80GB external hard drive , it has 3 partition F,G,H

FAT 32

I only want 1 partition , how do i do this , sorry this might be a silly question but i am new to this

 

[rpstewart]

The simplest option is to copy all the data elsewhere then use the built in Disk Management tool in Windows to delete the partitions and recreate a new single partition across the whole disk. You'll only be able to format it as NTFS with DM though since it won't let you format anything bigger than 32Gb as FAT32 despite it supporting volumes up to 2Tb. Gparted will let you format large partitions as FAT32 if you need to.

 

[Footballmad1973]

The simplest option is to copy all the data elsewhere then use the built in Disk Management tool in Windows to delete the partitions and recreate a new single partition across the whole disk. You'll only be able to format it as NTFS with DM though since it won't let you format anything bigger than 32Gb as FAT32 despite it supporting volumes up to 2Tb. Gparted will let you format large partitions as FAT32 if you need to.

The reason i was asking as i wanted to store my music on external SO i could play on my Playstation 3 , i have around 41GB of music

 

[rpstewart]

Gparted will let you format large partitions as FAT32 if you need to.