G3 has failed... need to use 8.6 drive in series with an OS 9 HD- Doable??

I am giving up on trying to restore an old G3 and thus have my HD, a WD1000, which was
OS 8.6 - and all its content, orphaned. I have a spare AGP G4 with an OS 9 system. Ideally
wanted to just plug this old drive into a spare bay on that machine. Can I have an 8.6
system volume/disk on the same machine? Ran DiskWarrior on it --(it needed major
repair after some hardware issues on the beige G3 - can no longer boot it on that
machine for unknown reason - no video, no recognition of drive but chimes on...may
have messed something up in doing PMU resetting and replacing the battery?)
Also find that I cannot boot the DiskWarrior-rebuilt drive when I put it by itself in
the AGP G4 and attempt to start up on it. I also can't seem to get that G4 to boot
up off an OS 8.5 CD.
Kinda lost on how to proceed here - Main goal is to just be able to boot from this
older 8.6 disk again. Sorry if this should be under another topic but it sorta relates
to OS 9 insofar as wanting to try and have two bootable drives, one with 9, one with
8.6, in the same computer. Also would welcome any ideas as to why it the sawtooth
G4 isn't recognizing the 8.6 startup drive...i thought this was 8.6 and 9-compatible.
Thanks much,
Mike

Hi, Mike -
What would be the most expedient way to do this?
You have a 10GB drive in the G4, and an 80GB and 100GB that you want to move into it.
Pick one of the two larger drives, probably the one with the most free space on it. If both have 15GB or 20GB of free space available, or more, pick the one jumpered as Slave. If the 10GB is a Western Digital, reset it to Master if it is now set as Single.
Once the second drive is in the G4, boot the G4 to the 10GB drive using OS 9. Throw away the OS 8.x System Folder on the second drive. You might also want to discard the programs and utilities for which you have newer versions with the OS 9 install.
Then copy (drag and drop) the contents of the 10GB drive onto the second drive. Don't overlook anything that is lying on the desktop (do not copy the Trash, printer, or any drive icons).
Provided the copied OS 9 System Folder is blessed (displays the Mac OS glyph on top of a standard folder icon), you can test boot to that install right then, using Startup Manager control panel to select the second drive.
Once you have a successful boot to the second drive using OS 9, you can remove the original 10GB drive and install the other drive from the G3 in its place. Be sure you end up with one drive jumpered as Master and the other as Slave.
Comments -
• It is good practice to leave 15% of a drive unused. A too-full drive can cause behavioral problems, such as an inability to Save or Find, booting or running glitches, or other irregularities.
• Since these two drives from the G3 may be older that the G4, it would be a good idea to run a utility such as DiskWarrior to examine them for health.
• It does not make much difference which drive is Master and which is Slave. For most purposes those are just addresses; either can be used as the primary boot drive. About the only exception is if the machine is ever set up in a Firewire Target Disk Mode config with another Mac - in FwTDM, only the drive jumpered as Master on the Target machine will appear on the Host machine's desktop.
• After copying the contents of the 10GB drive to the second drive you may need to fix a few aliases. An alias is not much more than an icon with an embedded pathname to its original, to the item it represents; when an alias or its original is copied to a new volume, the pathname embedded in the alias is not rewritten to reflect a new location for the original. Aliases needing fixing can include one for Sherlock in the Apple Menu Items folder (in OS 9's System Folder), perhaps a few in the Application Support folder in System Folder, and any you may have created. If you do a Get Info on an alias, the embedded pathname is shown to the original, and there is a button in the Get Info window ("Select New Original") that allows you to fix an alais; you can also just create a new alias and discard the non-working one.

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