How difficult would it be...

...for me to remove the harddrive from my g4, turn it into an external harddrive, and attach it to a mini?
We had a power outage, which fried our power source. Our harddrive should be just fine, but since we have a "vintage" machine (G4 from '97) there aren't many options. We are thinking if we get a mini (which should be plenty of power for us) we could keep the old harddrive, rather than transfering the data, but not sure how difficult it would be for us to do. Do we need to have someone do it?

Hey there,
I hope you don't mind me piggy-backing onto this thread, as I am hoping to do the same with my old G4 drives.
My logic board is dead, so rather than pay $550 to replace it, I thought I'd remove my drives and make them externals.
The advice already given on this post is helpful, however I am hoping someone can answer a few more questions I have on the topic:
I have 2 drives; 1 drive is partitioned into two (applications, operating system on part one, media and personal files on part two) and a second spare drive that is used for back ups.
When it comes to drives that have been partitioned - will I lose any information from either 'part' after I remove it and turn it into an external? Will it even still be a partitioned drive once it take it out?
Will all my applications be lost?
Any insight into this would be greatly appreciated!!

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