How do I unpartition a drive?

[Foz2001]

I have a drive that I partitioned awhile ago, how do I go abouts getting this back to 1 drive. (its just a spare drive, no operating system on it)

Thanks,

Foz

 

[vexion]

Either,

1) Use a partitioning software like Partition Magic or GParted to merge the partitions, or

2) Back up data, insert Windows CD, reformat the whole drive as C:

 

[scihon]

Paragon Partition v9 ( I think) works pretty well for this also. Any utility that can help you manage drive partitions can help you redistribute your space into one large drive.

 

[axan]

gparted if you care about preserving data
otherwise you can just delete the partitions in windows and then create 1 big one.

 

[Nenu]

Use windows disk manager and delete the partitions.