My hard drive recently crashed on my desktop running XP and due to the discontinuation of support for XP, I decided to upgrade with a new motherboard, memory,hard drive etc., now running Win 8.1, which has been working fine so far. My problem is that there is data and pictures on the old hard drive which I would like to recover. Can someone advise whether it would be practical to re-install the failed drive along side my new HD in my desktop and reboot as normal and then try and access the failed drive like an external drive? I have already tried booting from the failed drive alone which did not get past the BIOS stage before switching off. Any suggestions would be helpful.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1 Pro 64
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- CPU
- Intel i5-4670
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte GA-Z87X-UD3H
- Memory
- 8Gb
- Hard Drives
- 3 TB WD NAS drive
- PSU
- Corsair RM550
- Case
- AOpen
- Keyboard
- Microsoft
- Mouse
- Microsoft
- Browser
- BT
- Antivirus
- NIS