Can I swap G5 1.8 iMac SATA drive into a PM G5-1.8?

Looks like I've hit by the power issue. My iMac will boot up for about 20-30sec, spinning progress, then cut-out. Started happening out of the blue. Of course I hadn't backed up recently.
I have some important information on my iMac hard drive. Can I swap it into a PM G5-1.8 (SP)? If I can, that'll let me back it up. Then I can hand over my iMac to Apple so they can fix the problem.
Any info appreciated.

From what I can read on the Power Mac specs, they are all serial ATA with the wiring set up to add another HD with just connecting the drive.
It is all here in the first section "Up to 800GB of Internal Storage."

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