Greyed out Volume Format box in Disk Utility 10.4.

Hi,
i'm trying to open up more space on my hard drive by doing a full erase. Available space is about 6GB on a 80GB drive. Running OS X 10.4.11. on a Mac Book Black. Want to install 10.6. SL.
In Disk Utility the Volume Format box is greyed out. It's set as Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
How can i change it?
Thanks for any advice.
Mark

How much free space is on the HD, where has all the space gone?
OmniDiskSweeper is likely the easiest/best, and is now free...
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http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/how_to_recover_missing_hard_drive_space/

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