i-mac G3 - Is My Drive Repartitioned?

[gregorymorris]

Hi, I have OS9.2 currently installed and
would like to install OSX. However, I have
a few programs that I can no longer find
the discs for (Photoshop, Word, etc) and
they are installed on OS9.2 - and I want to
keep them. I've read about partitioning the
drive and installing OSX with OS9 - my
System Profiler tells me this: "MAC OS
PARTITIONS: 1" Does this mean that my
drive is already partitioned into two or
does it mean that it is not partitioned at
all? What are my options here? Any help
would be great. I just don't want to loose
those programs. Thanks.

 

[shifuimam]

If it says "MAC OS PARTITIONS: 1", I'm guessing that means one partition...

Your hard drive can't magically repartition itself. Unless you have more than one hard drive showing up in the Finder, it's one partition on one drive.

You also cannot repartition a hard drive without wiping the data, unless you use third-party (commercial) software. You *might* try the GParted LiveCD (google it), but I don't think that there's a PowerPC version available..