Swap HDD from a G4 to a G5?

[ptdebate]

So I was feeling curious and I needed a Leopard installation on my G5 in order to burn a leopard install disk (my G4's superdrive is a little janky), so I literally just swapped my G4's HDD into the G5. Everything works! Wireless, DVD, graphics...everything. Is this normal? Can I just leave it this way or should I do a wipe?

 

[bunnspecial]

I'm wondering what you did about the turning the IDE drive in your G4 into a SATA drive.

With that said, it's completely normal. In fact, my main Quicksilver is running off a clone of the Leopard install that was on my G5 when I bought it.

 

[ptdebate]

I'm wondering what you did about the turning the IDE drive in your G4 into a SATA drive.

With that said, it's completely normal. In fact, my main Quicksilver is running off a clone of the Leopard install that was on my G5 when I bought it.

Actually, the drive in the G4 is a brand-new WD Black that was running on a PCI SATA card.

 

[bunnspecial]

That makes sense

 

[ptdebate]

That makes sense

Glad to hear that I can run the installation in my G5 without problems. That really saves me some time. Thanks for the quick response!