2nd hard drive for my E521?

I have an old Dell Dimension 4100 boxed on the floor with a 40 Gig drive sitting in it.

I thought I should put it in my E521 for a little extra space.  But I've never had two hard disks on a PC before and I don't know how it works.

I've changed hard drives out before so I think that iam is able to do this swap out.

Will it take any additional wiring to connect the 2nd hard drive?

The drive installed windows and has a few old files...  It will work just like that, or need to be defragmented?

If somone could you tell me what steps to take to change the drive from PC to PC, that would be great.


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