Help for a newbie? (NTFS partitioning)

[obake]

OK, I just got a new hard drive formatted at the computer place at my school. Not because I don't know how to do it, but because every time I did it on this particular drive, it seemed to screw up. Anyway, I RMA'd the drive/enclosure and gave the new ones straight to the computer place at school for formatting. Works great now, except for one thing... they didn't partition the entire drive!

So here's my question: I've got the hard drive inside an enclosure, and the enclosure is hooked up via USB 2.0 to my computer. Under the Computer Managment window, it says that 128GB is partioned and formatted to NTFS, whereas 21.05GB is unallocated. I want the drive to just have one partition that encompasses the entire size of the drive. Would I screw anything up by deleting the partition that's already there and creating a new one that encompassed the whole drive? Would I need to format the drive again? And is it possible that doing it through USB 2.0 could screw it up somehow?

Any help would be most appreciated.

Thanks!

-Kyle

[setscrew]

No you will not screw anything up going throught the USB connection, although you will lose any data stored on the disk if you reformat the entire disk and make it all active.

The best method is to reformat the entire disk as NTFS (not quick method).

A program called Partition Magic will do this without loosing any data; I believe they have a free trial period.

[DougLite]

Backup, delete all partions, and repartition as needed is the best way. Partition Tragic is not recommended.

[obake]

Got it. Thanks for the help!