computer geek help please

[mrairportjunke]

HEY no offense.  lol.  i need some help.  i have a external harddrive that has a regular computer harddrive in it that was partioned into like 9 partitions.  it is a 90gig hdrive.  i want to get rid of the partitions.  how can i undo the partitions??  its in an external hardrive setup right now.

[imagirlgeek]

Re: computer geek help please

You can do it within Windows.

Plug the ext hard drive into your machine
Open Computer Management
Select Disk Management under the Storage section
You should see the Disk and the partitions.  You can right-click on each partition and select 'delete partition' from the pop-out menu.

[imagirlgeek]

Re: computer geek help please

If you need more help, we can walk through it on the phone if you want.

[mrairportjunke]

Re: computer geek help please

sweet ill plug it in later when wife gets back i got the baby while shes workin out and hes fussy lol

[mrairportjunke]

Re: computer geek help please

ok were is computer management??  and how do i get rid of that stupid click this button for the user login. i hate that. im the only user.

[mrairportjunke]

Re: computer geek help please

ok i figured out how to delete them but i got a prob. its a 90gig but its only showin that i got 67?  whats up wit that

[imagirlgeek]

Re: computer geek help please

You on XP?  Computer Management can be found either by right-clicking on the My Computer icon and then clicking Manage on the pop-out menu, OR Control Panel > Admin Tools > Computer Management.

And you can get rid of the user login by going to Control Panel > User Accounts, then click 'change the way users logon and logoff', then deselect the checkbox 'use the Welcome Screen'.

[imagirlgeek]

Re: computer geek help please

You sure you got all the partitions?

Try formatting the drive.  Same place as you deleted the partitions.  You should have an option to format the drive.

[Cesar]

Re: computer geek help please

man how did you geeks get soooo computer savy? J/K nice to have people that are willing to help out with our broad range of problems!!

[imagirlgeek]

Re: computer geek help please

We are geeks...we have WAY too much time on our hands.  

[mrairportjunke]

Re: computer geek help please

im formattin it right now.  i told it to delete all of them.  only other drives showin are my c: and d: which are both on my laptop.  c is the operating systerm and the D: is a 10 gig computer backup area gateway put on it when i bought it.

[imagirlgeek]

Re: computer geek help please

Let me know if the format resets it.

[mrairportjunke]

Re: computer geek help please

hey do i make it a primary partion?

[imagirlgeek]

Re: computer geek help please

Yep.

[mrairportjunke]

Re: computer geek help please

k its formatin.  thanks.  ill let you know.  shuld it find the last part of the space its missin or what?