Third HDD w/OS installed

[mlbtheshow]

Quick question, I am running my PC with a SSD as primary (WIN 8 64Bit), then have a 1TB HDD as my secondary for storage.

However I now need to temporarily put in an old Sata drive to get some photos from it... now this HDD has WIN XP installed as it was a boot drive for this old machine.

If I put this in as say a third drive, can I access the files as normal, take the photos off and transfer them to my 2nd drive? Or could this cause some issues?

Also if its fine, is it a case of plug in and go? Or do I need to fiddle in the BIOS etc to get the system to recognise it as a 3rd drive - or even do something in Windows?

Cheers,

 

[hawkhench]

Plug it in and go. If your computer tries to boot into XP, go into BIOS and change the boot order so your SSD is #1 prio (I expect it would be anyway so this shouldn't be an issue). Then you can just access the files as you would as though it was a storage drive within Windows.