I don't want my hard drive partitioned

I have an 80 gb hd that was partitioned into 2 separate 40 gb drives. I want to combine them back to their original state. I have everything backed up & am willing to erase the HDs but in the disk utility it will only allow me to erase each one separately. How do I get it back to one 80 gb HD?
G4 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Hey afrenette.
I think when you partition you erase and reformat automatically.
So you should be able to go to the Disk Utility and select your Hard Drive from the left side, not select a partition but the Hard Drive itself.
Then go and select partition at the top of the page.
Under Volume Scheme it will say Current but instead select 1 partition.
Then select Partition at the bottom of the page.
Make sure you have definitely backed up all of your info before proceeding.
I hope this helps.

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