with old hard drive

Hi, I hope someone can help.I had a system which the processor broke and the hard drive i had in ithe windows intallation was corrupt it would only run if i put the systems disk in even though it didnt seem to read the disk. Any way i bought a new system and bought a hard disk casing ffor my old hard drive as need to get in fo off it, but it wouldnt pick up and says on the paper work that you have to formatt it,which is no good as i would like to get my stuff off the hard disk first.Have got two sata disk drives on my new computer and my old one is IDE i dont really want to open my case.Thought about file transfer as got XP but need a computer to do that and mines old ones not working. would be glad of any help as really dont want to lose my stuff on my old hard drive thanks.

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