New hard drive, shows up as three new hard drives.?

Question

I just installed one (1) new 40Gb hard drive/disk in my computer, the computer already has a 120Gb drive, as a spare. But in My Computer it shows up as three (3) new hard drives:

Name-Size

1. E, 1.99Gb
2. F, 5.40Gb
3. G, 29.8Gb

Question- Why has it shown up a three instead of one? Can i merge these drives into one?

Thanks

Yes it was used on another computer before. And how do you use fdisk? Is it in BIOS or on the XP cd or what.

Please help.

Answer 1

Did this disk exist in another machine before adding it? Just curious because a new drive usually doesn't come with partitions defined. Is there anything on the partitions that you need? If not, then go ahead and delete the partitions with fdisk and then create one single partition.

Answer 2

run fdisk and delete those partitions and then partition it as 40GB.