Repartitioning FAT32 Drive

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I feel like I've just forgotten how to do this from the DOS days, but I
have an 3.2Gb drive from an old laptop (2.5" drive) that was
partitioned for C: and a logical D:. These can be formatted for FAT32
which is what I want to use this as an external USB drive, but how can
I repartition this drive for a single storage letter of the full 3.2Gb?

Haven't played with an old drive like this for a long time.
 
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I feel like I've just forgotten how to do this from the DOS days, but
I have an 3.2Gb drive from an old laptop (2.5" drive) that was
partitioned for C: and a logical D:. These can be formatted for FAT32
which is what I want to use this as an external USB drive, but how can
I repartition this drive for a single storage letter of the full 3.2Gb?
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Just delete both partitions and create a new one for the entire space.

That will lose the data in those partitions.
Haven't played with an old drive like this for a long time.
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I've reported you to the RSPCTPPTLUOHD.
 
Previously said:
I feel like I've just forgotten how to do this from the DOS days, but I
have an 3.2Gb drive from an old laptop (2.5" drive) that was
partitioned for C: and a logical D:. These can be formatted for FAT32
which is what I want to use this as an external USB drive, but how can
I repartition this drive for a single storage letter of the full 3.2Gb?
Click to expand...
Haven't played with an old drive like this for a long time.
Click to expand...

If you want to keep the data, Gnu Parted is a free tool
to do it.

Arno
 
Thanks, everyone.

Don't need to save data, I will just delete all the partitions and use
Disk Management to repartition for the full size of the physical drive
then reformat FAT32 (Being used by a Linux NAS with W98, W2000 and XP
clients). Am I correct in setting the jumpers for this external USB
drive to Master? I think that means no jumpers at all on the old 3.5Gb
Travelstar that I am using.
 
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Thanks, everyone.
Click to expand...
Don't need to save data, I will just delete all the partitions and use
Disk Management to repartition for the full size of the physical drive
Click to expand...

Yep, that's all you need to do.
then reformat FAT32 (Being used by a Linux
NAS with W98, W2000 and XP clients).
Click to expand...

And that is the best format in those circumstances.
Am I correct in setting the jumpers
for this external USB drive to Master?
Yes.

I think that means no jumpers at all on
the old 3.5Gb Travelstar that I am using.
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Hitachi took over support for those
http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/table2.htm
 
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