partition hard drive

From: Mitznjack (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/16/04 

Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 09:55:54 -0700

I bought a computer used and the hard drive is
partitioned. I want to un-partition it and format and re-
setup the machine with one partition due to not enough
space errors. How do I do this? I didn't get any disks
with it.

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