Two hard drives on desktop

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the other day, my 9 year old (Mr. Pad Inc. - a budding developer) some how created a second hard drive on our iMac Flat Panel. I am guessing that the hard drive is now partitioned and the only way to return it to normal will be to erase the hard drive and start over. Am I right? Are there other options? At the moment we have Tiger installed (Pad Inc. told me to tell you). Thank you for your help in advance.
Mr. Pad Inc's Dad.

You may have to boot the computer from the
Installer disc so you can use Disk Utility and
see if the hard disk drive itself is actually the
item partitioned, or if there is a Disk Image in
the computer somewhere that is not an actual
'partition' and if so, it could be 'ejected.'
Does the computer in question have Leopard
on board? That MAY give a user, with Admin
level access, the ability to partition even a
PowerPC's hard drive; I believe the new Intel
Macs have that ability in their OS & hardware.
I have not heard of this issue in a PPC Mac
running Tiger 10.4.11 or earlier.
Perhaps you may not need to start from the
Installer boot disc to do this; maybe just look
in the system's own Disk Utility and see if a
second drive icon is present, (should be, if
you see it on the desktop) and then use D.U.
to tell what the content is and the size.
In fact, just highlight the icon on the desktop
and use 'Get Info' in the Finder's File menu to
see what you can, about this item.
Unlikely, someone could make a partition on
a PowerPC Mac without some third party tools.
The newer Intel® Macs can be partitioned with
no trouble; and the newer Drive Genius utility
can also partition without wiping or reinstalling.
If the appearance of an icon of a second drive
is simply due to someone having made a Disk
Image (or a .dmg file is also possible) you could
see what size the file is, and where it really is
located. When it is proven to not be essential
bits in a new wrapper, you can restart the Mac
in SafeBoot, repair disk permissions from the
Disk Utility in the computer's system, and then
restart normally. This would unmount the image
and also if it had been placed in the trash and
unable to be thrown away, this should unlock it.
But, I may be wrong about this; I'd certainly look
into it and would probably not have asked for help
in a forum; that's just me. I also have computer
clones on external bootable drives, too. Backups.
See what you can find out about the nature of the
file or disk image and when it was made; all that
would be in Get Info. And Disk Utility may have
been used to create it; anyone with access to a
Mac can do this. Perhaps you need to make a
different set of user accounts and leave the Mac
with a simple one for non-Admin persons to use?
Good luck & happy computing!
edited for some of the same reasons.

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