How to remove a GPT Partition

I bought a USB hard drive and it was formatted for apple with the GPT partion.  My windows XP machine recognized the hard drive, but not the partition.  I had to format the drive, but was unable to through the Disk management console or in the usual way.

Here is what you will need to do:

type the following command at the command prompt.

1. cmd
2. diskpart
3. list disk
4. select disk x (choose the disk you want to format)
5. clean
6. exit

You are now ready to format the disk in windows.