A call for help! Can I make my master my slave?

Hi, friends. I hope these few words find you in good spirits.
I am trying to recover data from about 10 years of my life, and I am hoping one of you will point me in the right direction.
I have an old Power Mac G4 tower (Sawtooth, AGP from about 2000). It has two hard drives: the original, a 10 GB drive in the master position, and a newer 80 GB Seagate in the slave position. The original drive is running OS 9.2.2 and the Seagate is running 10.3 (Panther). Right now it is booting off the original drive. I'd like to boot it off the Seagate, if I can.
First, my question: may I safely and correctly swap the two drives, or just the cables, so that the Seagate drive becomes the 'default' master drive?
Now, the problem, which is knotty and may indicate hard drive failure:
I last booted the computer two years ago, and at that time, both drives worked just fine. Now I am trying to retrieve all my data to a new external drive, and wipe the old Power Mac clean. That data represents a fair bit of my personal life, and I am willing to do just about anything to retrieve it.
Now I cannot get the master drive (OS 9.2.2.) to boot all the way. I booted it with extensions loaded, and I get to the desktop photo and the time (the correct time) in the menu bar, but then the process seems to stop. The hard drive does not appear on the desktop, and although the cursor is not frozen, there is nothing to click on. Then I booted it with extensions off, and again I reached the same place (desktop photo, correct time).
I do not have the startup CD with me. I tried to boot the machine with my OS 10.6 disk (holding down the 'c' key), but the OS 9.2.2 loaded. I tried that twice.
Then I tried to access the original hard drive in target disk mode. The yellow moving 'TDM' symbol on the original computer's screen is visible, but no hard drive icon appears on my laptop (Intel, 2008, 10.6.8). I tried Disk Utility, and then TechTool Deluxe, but nothing appears in either of them. So I cannot access the hard drive in order to try a software repair, or to change the startup drive.
I am hoping that the Seagate slave drive is working -- that has almost all of my data anyway -- and that I can get it to boot if it is in the master position. If you savvy and experienced people say that I can swap them, then I'll give it a shot.
If you have any better suggestions, I am willing to follow those too. I am running out of things to try!
Thanks in advance, and peace,
Charles

Hi BDAqua,
And thanks for your prompt help. I like the idea of using the cable to connect my two old hard drives directly to my laptop. I am unfamiliar with the cable, however, and I have three questions:
1. Will it come with instructions for use?
2. It looks like I simply remove the hard drive and connect it to the USB port on my laptop. Why then do I need to set the drive to master? (I installed my second hard drive about 8 years ago, and I no longer remember the significance of master/slave.)
3. If I am very careful -- and I am -- are you fairly certain that I'll not fry my hard drive?
If you cannot help me with these questions, or are too busy, please know that I am grateful for your help.
Peace,
Charles

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