[MacProo]

Hi there

It turns out that on my Mac Pro, i have 2 Tiger partitions ( on HD, and HD 2) and 1 leopard ( HD 2)... its a long story
How can i delete the Tiger without deleting the content on the hard drives especially HD 2 which contains both OS?

Thanks

[cgc]

What? Your question doesn't make sense. You have three OSes installed on two hard drives within three partitions? For questions about formatting or erasing OSes, you want to be precise...

I assume you want to delete an OS or two and use that drive (or partition) to store files on. Boot from one of the OSes you want to keep, copy the stuff from the partition you want to delete, then open DiskUtility (in Applications/Utilities/) and select the partition you want to wipte and erase it. Make sure you pick the partition and not the drive.

[Simon]

I'm assuming each of these OSes lives on a separate partition. In that case you can format HD1 right away. You can then clone Leopard to the formatted HD1. Once that's completed and you've made sure everything's ok, you can format HD2 and repartition (if you wish).

If you have user data or apps on the Tiger partitions you want to preserve I suggest you make a backup first (either TM or a clone to an external disk) and then copy back once you have the system configuration set up the way you want it.

To format/partition you can use /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.

To clone you again use /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility > Restore. Select erase destination to get a bootable clone in block-copy mode (fast).

[mkerr64]

The way this confusion happened was that when i upgraded from tiger to leopard, the operating system of tiger still remained, which i simply ignored. from then i had some problems with my computer and had to archive install again accidently adding tiger to another hard drive (HD2) and then finally I installed leopard again.

Instead of messing around with this I raided HD and HD1 and formated everything and started from the beginning