Installing an old hard drive.

[McRackin]

I'm an installation impaired person. I have a fairly new computer, under a year. I want to install my OLD 5 year old 80GB hard drive in this new computer so I can get all my old files.

All I have is the hard drive and that thick 1.5"-2" wide plugin thing that I pulled out of the old computer. I tried plugging it in the mobo, and I plugged a mobo power connector into the harddrive, but the harddrive didnt appear in "My Computer".

Im obviously missing a step, can anyone fill a noob in

 

[TheSpoon]

EDIT: sorry, I misread. I thought you meant you plugged the big cable into the HD. If you plugged both cables into it, it should show up in Windows if it has a partition Windows can read. Does your BIOS see the old drive? Maybe you have your IDE channels disabled in the BIOS?

 

[McRackin]

I tried doing it a second time and when I started my computer back up it would just stay at the BIOS screen. I'd try pressing F12 to enter setup and it just stalled and didnt work :S