Can I erase one hard drive ?

2009-12-20 Thread lanstrad
I have a BW G3 on which I had installed a second HD. The old one is only 6GB and almost full... In System Preferences, I have set to boot from OS X 10.4.11 from the bigger drive (Mac OS 9 was formerly on the small drive so OS X also installed there first). The larger drive is 40GB with 32 GB

Re: Can I erase one hard drive ?

2009-12-20 Thread DAN A CURRIE
lanstrad wrote: I have a BW G3 on which I had installed a second HD. The old one is only 6GB and almost full... In System Preferences, I have set to boot from OS X 10.4.11 from the bigger drive (Mac OS 9 was formerly on the small drive so OS X also installed there first). The larger drive

Re: Can I erase one hard drive ?

2009-12-20 Thread Jim McGee
On Dec 20, 2009, at 8:49 AM, DAN A CURRIE wrote: lanstrad wrote: I have a BW G3 on which I had installed a second HD. The old one is only 6GB and almost full... In System Preferences, I have set to boot from OS X 10.4.11 from the bigger drive (Mac OS 9 was formerly on the small drive so OS

Re: Can I erase one hard drive ?

2009-12-20 Thread Mel
Before you do anything, consider downloading Carbon Copy Cloner and using that to accomplish what you want to do. --- On Sun, 12/20/09, Jim McGee orb...@dslextreme.com wrote: From: Jim McGee orb...@dslextreme.com Subject: Re: Can I erase one hard drive ? To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Date

Re: Can I erase one hard drive ?

2009-12-20 Thread Brett M. Roby
Jim McGee orb...@dslextreme.com wrote the following on Sun, 20 Dec 2009 09:10:11 -0800: You should also be able to use your bigger (40Gb) boot drive's Disk Utilities to erase the smaller drive without the need to use an install disk. Jim McGee I think this is what I would