Transferring Hard Drives between G4's

HI......I may have the chance to purchase a Quicksilver G4 (2002) from work.
It is the 800MHz model with 1.25Gb RAM and a 160Gb hard drive.....
It is running OS X 10.3.9..........
I am currently on OS X 10.4.8......
If I was to get it how do I transfer the hard drive across? (I have a Firewire cable I can use)......
Will there be a problem with the fact the new one has a older OS X? (I will obviously get rid of all of the work stuff before hand)
Will I have to re-install OS X 10.4 on the new one or does the hard drive transfer also transfer the Operating System...?
I did transfer the hard drive across when I went from my old iMac to the current G4 but I was also installing OS X 10.4 as well and it was part of the process.......
Any advice or comments are appreciated
Thanks

Hi, craigkelleigh -
If I take out the hard drive and place it into the QS does that mean that I will only have 40Gb (as per my old machine)........or will it combine with the 160Gb already there?
Neither.
You would have two hard drives in the machine - one 160GB, the other 40GB. Either could be booted to (provided there is a bootable OS on both), and the other used for additional file storage, etc. You would have a total capacity of 200GB, but it would not be combined - you would still have two drives (volumes), each separate from the other.
For example, on my G4/500 I have two internal drives, one of which has been partitioned into three volumes; I also have three firewire drives attached to it. All seven volumes have a bootable OS (they are of various versions); any of the seven can be used as the boot volume; all volumes are accessible and can be used no matter which OS I boot to.

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