2 drives 2 different os's

I ran into a few problems running protools 6.4.1 on my osx powermac 1.25ghz tower and i want to run my other INTERNAL drive from my discarded 400mhz g4 on the same computer (the 1.25ghz). Is this possible and would there be any drawbacks. Or maybe someone can just point me in the right direction.

biggest apple:
I'm guessing this goes the same for one drive being osx and the other being os9?
I have happily run both OS 9 and OS X on the same disk/partition for years with no trouble, although I don't boot from OS 9 much anymore. Having them on different drives does give you the facility of Option booting into either one, which can be advantage, although selecting OS 9 as the startup disk does not take that much more effort.
What do you mean fully bootable?
By fully bootable I mean that you can boot from the drive/partition. I can boot from any of the installed OS on any partition of my drives. Formatting and installing makes the drive bootable, or creating a bootable clone using a utility like SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner.
I'll sit down one day and figure out how to partition a drive.
Here are some directions:
Formatting, Partitioning Zeroing a Hard Disk Drive
Warning! This procedure will destroy all data on your Hard Disk Drive. Be sure you have an up-to-date, tested backup of at least your Users folder and any third party applications you do not want to re-install before attempting this procedure.
Boot from the install CD holding down the "C" key.
Select language
Go to the Utilities menu (Tiger) Installer menu (Panther & earlier) and launch Disk Utility.
Option for formatting an External HDD
Connect external HDD to computer
Turn on external HDD
Start up computer and log in
Go to Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility and launch DU.
Select your HDD (manufacturer ID) in left side bar.
Select Partition tab in main panel. (You are about to create a single partition volume.)
Select number of partition in pull-down menu above Volume diagram.
(Note 1: One partition is normally preferable for an internal HDD. External HDDs usually have more than one. See Dr. Smoke’s FAQ Backup and Recovery for tips on partitioning external HDD
Note 2: For more partitions than one, after you have selected the number of partitions you can adjust the size of the partition by selecting the top partition and typing in the size; then move down if more adjustments need to be made..)
Type in name in Name field (usually Macintosh HD)
Select Volume Format as Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Click Partition button at bottom of panel.
Select Erase tab
Select the sub-volume (indented) under Manufacturer ID (usually Macintosh HD).
Check to be sure your Volume Name and Volume Format are correct.
Optional: Select on Security Options button (Tiger) Options button (Panther & earlier).
Select Zero all data. (This process will map out bad blocks on your HDD. However, it could take several hours. If you want a quicker method, don't go to Security Options and just click the Erase button.)
Click OK.
Click Erase button
Quit Disk Utility.
Please do post back if you have further questions or comments.
Cheers
cornelius

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What do you mean install it in another enclosure?
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