Is it possible to swap HDD's from my iMac onto my MacBook Pro?

I currently have an iMac G5 (first gen w/ out the camera on it) that had a 250GB HDD on it but would love to swap it onto my MacBook Pro (first gen aswell) that only has a 80GB HDD. While doing my research, I noticed that they only go up to 200GB 4200-rpm drive. Is this correct? My MacBook Pro is : 1.83 GHz Core Duo. I don't know if that has anything to do with it. Thanks in advance.

The drive in the imac is likely to be a 3.5 inch desktop drive so it won't fit in the MBP.
The MBP takes a 2.5 inch sata drive. You can get them up to 250gb and 300gb is near if not already here.
Take a look at www.macsales.com to see what hard drive upgrades are open to you. You don't actually have to buy a drive from them.
Best of luck.

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