My computer was recently nakered and I need to get the data off the drive. I am claiming on insurance so I will be getting a new computer, probably with vista. The hard drive at the moment has got xp and is a three and a half inch ide drive, i think. about 6 years old so not SATA. I was just wondering the best way to get the data off it, music etc. I tried to put it in my windows 2000 computer and it asked me to format it before I could do anything with it, would this be the same with vista or possibly another xp computer? Obviously I considered a hard drive caddy, would this work?
I believe a HD caddy would work. I would just be sure you can return it before you purchase it. I'm not sure why it asks you to format it in your pc.