I have Mac mini G4, and I have a Leopard Partition for it to be used as a file server / internet sharing device.
I wanted to make a second partition for OS 9 using this forum's patcher, and the first time it worked fine. I booted into my freshly burned CD, and I tried to install it to the second partition, and it wasn't there. It just said the HDD itself was unmounted and the second partition wasn't recognized.
I restarted into Leopard to see if it was still there, and sure enough, both partitions were mounted on the desktop. I decided to delete the second partition, and expanded the original volume to the original 80 GB size.
I rebooted once again into the OS 9 installer, and it still said that the hard drive was unmounted. I then decided to make the partition using the setup itself, and I made the OS 9 partition 20 GB. I selected that that partition was the drive I wanted to install to, and the install proceeded smoothly.
I restarted into the boot menu via option (⌥) and the only drive that appeared was "Mac OS 9," but no larger partition, "Mac OS X." Did I wipe the entire hard drive? Is Leopard still accessible? Or, did the writing and rewriting of the hard drive kill it?
TL;DR: I tried to make two partitions of the hard drive, and now one has disappeared. What happened?
Any Help would be appreciated!