Spilt OS9 & OSX on G4

Hi! New to the forum. I have a PowerMac G4 which I use for digital artwork. Am running Photoshop 5, Illustrator and Quarkxpress, all on OS9. The machine is painfully slow. I'm not prepared to make investments in upgrading the software to operate on OSX. Someone told me I could install a second hard drive in the machine and run OS9 separately from OSX. Is this so? Any suggestions??? Any guidance would be greatly appreciated!

You will need a Parallel ATA/IDE (not SATA) 3.5" hard drive.
Western Digital and Seagate both make good hard drives.
I've found that:
http://www.macsales.com/
http://www.cdw.com/
and Circuit City all sell these hard drives.
Also note the age of your G4 may limit your hard drive capacity:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86178
To identify your G4 use this article:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58418
If purchasing an external hard drive, I highly recommend http://www.macsales.com/ prebuilt external hard drives.

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