Reinstall/Format OS 9 w/o hurting OS X

[Montano]

I have 2 hard drives in my G4. One has OS 9 and OS X.1 on 2 seperate partitions. The other has Jaguar (X.2.6) on it. I want to format the first hard drive and reinstall only OS 9.2. Can I do this without hurting anything on the Jaguar drive ??
If so, do I just boot to the OS 9 CD and select the format/install option ?

 

[Rower_CPU]

As long as OS 9 is on a separate partition, which you say it is, you can reformat the partition without effecting 10.1.

 

[Montano]

I want to get rid of 10.1 It is on the same drive as OS 9. 10.2.6 is by itself on a seperate hard drive.

 

[springscansing]

Should be fine.

 

[Rower_CPU]

In that case, just delete the partition scheme on the drive with 9 and 10.1 and reformat the entire drive.

 

[MacBandit]

Startup from the drive with Jaguar on it and format the other drive using disk utility. You will also have the option to change the partition scheme from there.

 

[Montano]

I went into Disk Utility to erase the OS 9.2_hard drive, but the erase option was greyed out ? It seems the drive was locked by the previous owner to prevent any changes. How can I overcome this ?? If I boot from the OS 9 CD, will I be able to reformat this locked drive ?

 

[MacBandit]

Originally posted by Montano
I went into Disk Utility to erase the OS 9.2_hard drive, but the erase option was greyed out ? It seems the drive was locked by the previous owner to prevent any changes. How can I overcome this ?? If I boot from the OS 9 CD, will I be able to reformat this locked drive ?

Yes you should be able to format from the OS9 cd or the OSX cd. In either case make sure you chose HFS+ for your formating method.

Are you sure you weren't booted into OS9?