with old hard drive

Hi, I hope someone can help.I had a system which the processor broke and the hard drive i had in ithe windows intallation was corrupt it would only run if i put the systems disk in even though it didn`t seem to read the disk. Any way i bought a new system and bought a hard disk casing ffor my old hard drive as need to get in fo off it, but it wouldn`t pick up and says on the paper work that you have to formatt it,which is no good as i would like to get my stuff off the hard disk first.Have got two sata disk drives on my new computer and my old one is IDE i don`t really want to open my case.Thought about file transfer as got XP but need a computer to do that and mines old ones not working. would be glad of any help as really don`t want to lose my stuff on my old hard drive thanks.

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