Background:
I ordered parts to a new computer but the particular hard-drive in question is from the old computer, so it already had stuff on it, however when I put it into the new machine, I get a message that pops up saying that Windows needs to reformat it.  (im using XP Professional).  Oh by the way, I am stacking three hard drives, however the other two are reading fine. 

As you can see I dont want to loose anything on the hard drive in question since its already been partitioned and has all my stuff on it including music.

So does anyone know any software that will allow me to access the partition already in existance on the harddrive so I can to atleast try to get it off onto something else (ie. external drive or even another hard drive)?

I think one thing it might need to do is to reset the master boot record but i dont know.....


any help will be appreciated.

without much thought, i recall that sometimes i used to set the jumpers to cable select and put it in an external enclosure i have lying around, i remember that used to work for me