Recovering some files?

[Strepsils]

Hey Everyone, well the problem is my main windows drive has died and I am gonna buy a new hard drive to install Windows 7.
Now the unfortunate problem is I have a 750 gb hard drive which was second hard disk which has all my games, files and photos. Since when I re install windows 7 I will have to format the 2nd hard drive to be able to use it, how will I be able to recover the data from the 2nd hard drive before formatting it. Thanks

 

[Strepsils]

Oooo I always thought I had to because I remember previously when I first bought the 2nd hard drive it told me it needed to be formatted to be able to use the disk, well I'll just buy another boot drive and see how it goes

 

[Strepsils]

would it make any difference that the 2nd disk is a dynamic disk?