Getting data off two drives in a new system

[Goose]

My computer died the other day so i'm going to be putting a new system together with a 500gb Sata drive.

In my old PC i had a wee 40gb IDE drive which had my OS installed on it. I also had a 200GB IDE drive with just data on it (music, video files etc).

With the 200gb HD will it be a simple case of plugging it in to my new system and all my data should still be there?

What about the 40gb driver with the OS installed? Obviously i dont want to boot from i just want to extract some of my files off it. Is that doable?


Cheers.

 

[A2Z]

Yep as long as you put the new 500gb HD (with OS installed) as the bootable HD, which I think it should do anyway as it tries to boot from sata before IDE, or my computer does anyway, your 2 other HD's should just show up in My Computer and you can explore and copy files over etc.