Imac 17 / 15" drive compatibility?

Hi.
question and background:
using 17" imac flat G4. Hard drive: IBM-IC35L090AVV207-0
power-dead 15" flat in basement with numerous goodie on the HD.
not sure at this moment what the HD is.
feasible to pull 15" 's drive, temporarily sticking it into the using 17" imac flat G4? to copy data on to CDs? connectors same?
what risk? and any suggestion to adequately ground myself while doing procedure, appreciated.
thanks in advance.
AJSP

AjSP,
A "dongle" or adapter is basically an caseless external hard drive connector. So it's a lot cheaper. Like here:
http://www.xpcgear.com/usbdsc5.html
If you do a lot of this these are very useful since they fit PATA and SATA 2.5 and 3.5 ". They're some others also made for FireWire but a bit more costly.
Doing it this way avoids having to open up your working machine. Always a risk and looking at that take apart you can see there are a lot of pitfalls.
Also you'll have the machine unplugged so shock hazard is minimal.
If you want to try to get that 15" working email me for repair info.
any suggestion to adequately ground myself while doing procedure,
Well you should ground yourself to the metal parts before entering the machine to bleed off any static charge. Pros use a wrist grounding strap but there are warnings that using such a strap guarantees that you'd get a very severy shock if you touch a live circuit. Say your left wrist is grounded and you touch a live circuit w/ your right. The current would pass through through your core (heart!).
I actually make sure I'm not grounded. Wear socks and shoes, dry hands and stay away from grounds especially when working live. ( Not a problem you'll have )
will the 15" HD, if put into the 17" imac (obviously taking out the 17" imac HD) be hook-up compatible? are the 15 and 17 imac flower pots' plugs the same?
All the iMac G4s are PATA so all the same but if you use the adapter/dongle it wouldn't make a difference either way since they'll adapt SATA, PATA desktop drives or laptop drives.
Richard

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