i have a 8gig sandisk cruzer thumb drive. running vista home premium on my desktop.

the thumb drive has 2 partitions .. 12mb and 7.64gig.

how do i go about combining those partitions and formatting it. i don't need and don't want the U3 software that is on the smaller partition.

i've been to disk management and can format each partition. but don't know how to merge them into a single 8gig partition.

thanks in advance.