Old External drive into a 2nd internal slave?

I have a G-Tech 250GB external drive that I can not get to spin up. It gets power, as indicated by the light working, but won't spin up. I've been told this could be an issue with the power adapter not giving it ENOUGH power.
So my question is, can I remove the drive from the enclosure and connect it to my old G5 tower and use it as an internal drive? Not the main internal drive with the OS on it but a slave (i think thats what it would be) so that I can continue to use it while bypassing the adapter power issue?
If so, what is the process?

Whether the drive will work or not depends on the physical interface on the drive in the enclosure, and whether that's the same as the internal bus in your G5.
Regardless of what interface the external enclosure attaches to the host (e.g. FireWire, USB, etc.), the internal guts of the enclosure likely uses ATA or maybe SATA. The PowerMac G5 uses SATA drives, therefore you'd need to find out what kind of drive is in the enclosure before you can determine whether it will fit in the G5 or not.
If that doesn't work out, another option, of course, would be putting the drive in a different enclosure. That would at least eliminate the power supply issue, although that seems like a weak argument to me.

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