Getting Rid of Partitioned OS9 on HD

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azfsh

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I recently got an older G4 with a Dual Processor from work. It has OS9 partitioned part of the hard drive that I am never going to use for OS9. I would like to get rid of it and have just the one hard drive. Is there a way to permanantly unmount that partition?

I dont have any of the OSX software.

It is running 10.4.11

thanks for the help...

tim
 
'Is there a way to permanantly unmount that partition?' - yes ...

01. Back up the contents of the hard disk drive.
02. Insert the 'Install Disc 1' (that came with the G4) or a retail copy of 'Tiger' (MacOS X 10.4), and boot the Mac via the disc.
03. Via the booted disc's 'Disk Utility' - erase and partition the drive as desired.
04. Install 'Tiger', and reboot the Mac.
05. After the 'Tiger' base installation, install any related desired updates.

Please do not reply stating the absence of any installation disc(s); such is the computer owners' responsibility to have.
 
To do that the above way, you will need to reinstall Mac OS X.
If you don't want to do that, you can simply select that OS 9 partition in Disk Utility (Applications> Utilities>) and erase that partition - it will be empty and usable for whatever you need, the only downside being on a separate partition still. But could be always practical for some files, backups etc.
 
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