RE-formating an external hardrive

[Random Dave]

Question: How do I re-format my HP external hard drive?

Background context: My old windows 7 HP computer had stopped working and wasn't worth repairing, and so I took it to a computer place where they removed the 1 Terabyte hard drive and put it in a house for cheap. I got all my files that I wanted now off of that hard drive. I want to know now how to reformat the external hard drive so that it is clear, and faster. Then I will load on all my current files and use it as a backup. I was told that there is a way to do this, but no (that I have talked to) seems to know how.

Anyone have any clue how to reformat an external hard drive?

 

[johnb35]

Use disk management. Delete existing partitions and then either keep it one big one or create multiple partitions.

 

[Random Dave]

Could you expand farther on how to do that or provide a link that would show how? I have never re-formated anything before. By partitions are you meaning files or does that mean something else?

 

[johnb35]

http://www.pcworld.com/article/248980/how-to-partition-and-format-your-hard-drive-in-windows.html