[extrabastardformula]

so I lost my old PC to power supply failure and just got a new one on account of the old one being almost five years old.

Is there any way shy of expensive services to get the stuff off my old still functional hard drive? I've got oodles of good things I don't want to lose mainly of the mp3 variety. the only truly shit thing is this new system is vista. Any solutiions oh mavericks of the SB?
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[Broco]

If it's still functional, is there any reason why you can't just plug it into the IDE connector of your new PC's motherboard, and copy the data over using Windows Explorer? (or just leave it in as a permanent secondary hard drive)

[extrabastardformula]

Wasn't aware that my XP formatted drive could be read under vista, I'll gave to try it.
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[Broco]

XP and Vista use the exact same filesystem, no worries there.

I've always copied over my old stuff when I get a new PC. Even when there is a filesystem change, new operating systems are still able to read the old ones. I have files from the 80s on here.