How to reformat a mac os formatted external hard drive to ms dos fat

i partitioned a external hard drive so it could work as both my time machine back up and an external hard drive, i got another external hard drive as i was running out of space and wanted to use that one as a back up only, how do i reformat the partitioned one to MS-DOS (FAT)

Use Disk Utility in the Utilities folder: http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=1075

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