Thanks, I will give this a try. Actually I also thought of another solution.
If I replace the original hard drive with another of higher capacity (which I could certainly use) that should be straight forward as well ....I think.
I will post my result.
I would like to reformat my previously partitioned startup drive into a single
partition. (G4 dual 533 running OS 10.4.11) I have carbon-cloned the startup drive contents to an external fire-wire drive which I hope to re-transfer back after reformatting my original drive into a single...