Install Mac Mini harddrive into Mac Pro?

Hi all! Any idea if it would be possible to psychally take my hard drive out of my mini and install it into an empty hard drive bay in the mac pro? Im going to keep my mini around for backup and this would be the most ideal way to use it.

Ultimately it depends on which mac mini you're talking about. The older PowerPC version had PATA drives where the newer Intel ones have SATA drives.
Placing either drive type into an external enclosure is the recommended course of action.
However, if you are talking about a PATA drive you can in fact install it into the free 2nd optical drive bay. You will need to get a 2.5" to 3.5" drive conversion kit (it's really a simple bridge board that additionally allows the use of the 3.5" power cable) and the mounting may be rather tricky due to the short cables although it'll go into that space without a problem.

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