Removing a partition

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  1. phillyman

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    I have a second hard drive that is partitioned. It's not my primary it's the slave. How do I remove the partition.
     
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    you go to MSDOS prompt and then type in FDISK then go to change fixed disk and chose your second hard drive then click on delete dos partition and chose whatever you want to delete and restart your computer
     
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    I can't do it right from windows?
     
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    oh and after you restart you have to format the second drive because it will say invalid media type reading drive
     
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    ive never heard of doing it from windows unless you have a partitioning program doing it from dos is pretty easy
     
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    phillyman, if using xp than goto disk management for that drive to delete, make new partition & format the hd.
     
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    yes it is XP.
     
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    phillyman

    Just in case:

    Start
    Control Panel
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    Administrative Tools
    Computer Management
    Disk Management
     
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    thanks for the help, i knew there was a way to do it without going to DOS
     
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    Your welcome :)
     
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    Alright, I deleted the partition but it still shows only 147GB. It's a 160GB Maxtor. I'm doing a format now, so I'll see if that works. I did the format by right clicking on drive.
     
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    On disk MGT it shows that it has 5.52GB Unallocated. Whats up with that? I can make it a new partition that size but I wanted all one in one.
     
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