Adding another hard drive

I got three desktop computers older I finally put away, but I took the hd out of them, how do I add one to my desktop? I've already studied the basics > it's an IDE / ATA, is therefore of my office. Oops > my new one is a vista the hd is xp > hm how to handle that? Any help will be appreciated.   Thank you

Hello

You can follow the link given below and check if that helps.

Install or remove a hard drive

http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/install-or-remove-a-hard-disk-drive

Note: You will not be able to use the operating system on the hard drive that you added as may not be listed in the start menu.

Hope this information is useful.

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