How can I get windows 8 to recognize my hard drive recovered from xp?

I have connected a recovered hard drive (Western digital) outside my computer crashed, that was a win xp to another computer running windows 8.  The new computer doesn't recognize at all.  Nothing does show up as an extra hard drive.  There is in fact no answer I can see at all.  Scary is as I said this is a new computer and I'm not at all familiar with where to find anything.  I have to go to 'help' to even find the control panel I am as unfamiliar with it.  I would like to import all of my pictures and documents from the old hard drive.  Any help please?

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