Restore after hard drive erase

I have a G5 running Leopard and have just begun using Time Machine. My one internal hard drive has two partitions (a 120GB & a 35GB), both of which are backed up using TM. I need to reformat the hard drive to have one larger partition, so will be wiping everything out. My hope is to restore it with TM, minus the stuff that was on the smaller partition (I'll manually copy that to an external). Will TM run into problems when it tries to restore everything and finds a partition missing? Will it restore only the partition it finds (which will have the same name but larger capacity), and ignore the smaller partition, or will it give me an error and fail to do anything?

Time Machine should be backing up your two partitions to two separate folders. To restore you need to boot from the Leopard install DVD. Pick a language and choose Restore from backups in the Utilities menu. The installer will give you a choice to choose what partition you want to restore to as well as what specific Time Machine backup you wish to restore from as a part of the process. Pick the most recent backup from the partition you wish to restore. The installer won't care that the partition it is restoring to is larger than the partition Time Machine was backing up.

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