Windows, Arrg

[Iggy]

When I needed to upgrade the SATA drive in my laptop, I bought a USB to SATA adapter and connected the new hard drive to that and copied the existing drive onto the new one before swapping drives.

Since your XP system will not boot, you will need to either install the drive in a functioning system, or use an external solution like the one I mentioned.

If your drive is unbootable, it is quite possible that there is some physical damage or damage to the file structure.
You should be able to copy simple media files, but I would not count on being able to recover program files.

[Iggy]

Actually the drive is already in the new system I guess I just plug it in and see what I get.

You should have no issues and Win 7, which is still available, makes a good substitute for XP.

[Iggy]

Plugged it in and looks good ;-) now the next thing is to get graphics off the MB. I have an old Sapphire HD2400 pro. hope this works, last step.

I haven't used anything that old recently, but at one time I did have a X1300 running under Win7 and that card is one generation older so the HD2400 should work.