As was mentioned earlier, you probably have the old drive formatted as 
NTFS - without going in to details, it may not work over USB for you.
You can install the old drive internally and access it.  However, you 
will need an adapter to convert IDE to SATA.  For $11.50, there is just 
such an adapter over at geeks.com ( http://tinyurl.com/2bjnuh ).
Hopefully, that will do the trick for you :)

Tony Mayer



> 
> Thanks John to you and David who also responded. I should clarify a =
> couple
> things. My old OS was XP Pro. MB on old machine died so I only have this
> machine now to get those files off the HD's. This machine has sata setup =
> 
> with no IDE. I was lead to believe that the external enclosure had the =
> IDE=20
> interface which would be transferred over usb 2.0 so that I could read =
> the=20
> files and transfer them to my new HD.
> 
> Any help on this would be great.
> 
> jimi
> 
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