removing Apple partition from USB drive

[marcplante]

I have a WD USB external drive that was used with an Apple computer in the past. I wanted to clean it up and use it as a Windows backup drive. I was able to clean up most of the drive into a partition and reformat it, but there is a core partition that cannot be deleted with a Windows disc manager. What kind of tool can I use to delete this partition and repurpose the drive?

Thanks,

 

[Dahak]

If there is nothing on the drive you should be able to use diskpart to clean it.

Go to Run and type - CMD and click ok
In the command windows that pops open type in "diskpart"
Once in the diskpart command prompt type in "list disk"
Find the number of the disk that is your external drive
type in "select disk #" .... where # is the number of your external drive

!!!!!!!!! Be sure you use the correct number as this will erase everything from the drive. !!!!!!!
type "clean"

!!!!!!!! Be sure you used the correct number as this will erase everything from the drive. !!!!

Now you can go into Disk Management, initialize the disk and create the partition

 

[marcplante]

Perfect.

Thank you

 

[marcplante]

First try, I got an i/o error whig I suspect is because I started the session as a regular user. I rebooted and used nth admin account from the start and everything worked smoothly. Formatting the disc now. Thank you very much.