Dear Sir, I have an external hard drive 300GB, in which there are two partitions, one is NTFS and other is FAT32, i am trying to delete all the data from both, and want to format and I dont need Partitions. Please help me, in simple steps. Thanks Amjad

Open Control Panel, choose Hardware and Sound, then Device Manager, Disk managment and click on the external drive then right click on the second partition and select delete partition, confirm then do same for the first partition. When done right click on the full unallocated drive and choose create new partition using the default full amount and format.

PS. No need to delete files first.

Thanks for the prompt reply, but as you mentioned "Open Control Panel" YES I OPENED IT, "choose Hardware and Sound" THERE IS NOTHING LIKE THIS SO I AM STILL STUCK AT THIS STAGE. DIDNT GET CHANCE TO GO FURTHER. I AM USING WINDOWS XP HOME EDITION GENUINE FROM PC WORLD. PLEASE REPLY. CHEERS AMJAD

I am still waiting for your kind answer about my question, the solution you gave me, i couldnt be able to find. PLease answer me. amjad

Open Control Panel, choose Administrative Tools,then Computer Management,then Disk Management then click on the external drive then right click on the second partition and select delete partition, confirm then do same for the first partition. When done right click on the full unallocated drive and choose create new partition using the default full amount and format.