external hard disk problem

[drjeet]

1.) recently i upgraded my laptop hard disk.
the one which came with laptop , i converted into an external disk.
it was partitioned in 3 parts, can u tell me how to remove the partitions n make it as one volume?

2.) one more same type disk i hav, suddenly it has stopped working, if i connect to system the driver loads but the disk is not seen in my computer at all. but remove hardware safely appears, pls help me out with this, wht can be the problem and wht to do... thanks

[rt8400]

connect the ext hdd to the pc (i asume ure using an external usb casing for this purpose). right click on my computer and select 'manage' >storage > disk management. ure ext hdd will be listed in it. rt click on each partitions of ext hdd and delete. finally create a single partition. Warning !! be careful while doing this coz the task cannot be undone.

else u'll have to use a third party application (partition managers) to convert all partitions to a single one.

In windows vista i think u'll have an option to merge two partitions. (non destructive)

make sure to backup the data before doing this.