Emac hard drive in external hard drive

hi, couldnt find anywhere to put this. hope here is ok. I have the hard drive of my old emac in an external case at the moment, and was trying to get rid of all of it, in order to use it for storing some music on. firstly how is everything including the operating system itself removed? and can i use it as a regular external hard drive thereafter?
any help is much appreciated.
sam

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