I've bought a portable 40 Gb hard drive. It came formatted as a FAT32 with the whole disk as one primary partition. I would like to partition it, but have never partitioned a drive. I've read all the Help files & Googled etc etc, but am still VERY unclear. Because the entire disk is one primary partition there is no unused space. (All the Help files tell me to rt click unused space & create a new partition) In computer management I have the option of deleting the partition. Is this what I need to do? Will I then be able to create two or three smaller primary partitions? I don't have partition software, just XP. I'm in China with a language barrier so I'll be very grateful for any help. Thanks, Eleanor

Right-click the FAT32-formatted partition in Disk Management and chose Delete Partition. Now you should have nothing but unpartitioned space on the drive. Right click on the unpartitioned space and choose to create a new partition. Specify a type & size, choose whether to format it with FAT32 or NTFS (I'd go with a quick format). Repeat the process to create/format subsequent partitions.