3 PARTITIONS with Leopard and TM Problems

I ll try explaining as easy as possible:
I ve rebooted my hard drive, and because of some problems with my Leopard DVD and TM backup system I did the following:
HD 1 (18 Go) - Where I installed Leopard when inserting the DVD
HD 2 (80 Go) - Where the Backup of TM was made and where there is, now ALL the files and folders from Leopard (Application/Users etc.)
The questions is: it looks to me (I ve made some research) that the 13 Go used on HD 1 are exactly the same than on HD 2 except HD 2 s got all the backup on top of that.... therefore, can I delete the information on HD 1 or will it delete Leopard?
By the looks of it, Leopard though installed on HD 1 is actually on HD 2 because of TM backup....
Cheers

Hi rkos;
In your title you say partitions. In the body of your message you say HD which I take as hard drives. Which is it?
Doing Time Machine to a partition is not a good idea. If you lose the disk that the partitions are on you lose everything. You really should have an external disk for Time Machine.
Also Time Machine will not back itself up. If you are using partitions and tell Time Machine to back up the drive it will object to backing itself up.
Allan
Message was edited by: Allan Eckert

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