A couple of weeks ago, my computer crashed. I got the blue screen, and ever since I haven't been able to boot it up. It was a standard dell, and ran XP, it also had a Barracuda 7200.7 hdd. Whenever I tried to boot it, it would get to the Windows XP loading screen, and stall for a couple of minutes and then go to a blue screen saying fatal system error. This isn't really too bad of a problem, because I was going to reformat right now anyways, but the problem is that I don't want to loose all of the files off of my drive. I recently got a new computer, an IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad, so the plan was to transfer the files from my hdd to my new laptop, but this is where I run into trouble. I pulled the hdd on the desktop, and since I have no desire to/don't know if it's possible to set it as a slave on my laptop skipped that step and bought an IDE-USB adapter. Here's a link:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16812156101 . But I can't figure out how to attach it to my hdd. The jumper on the drive isn't exposed and says factory use only, and I am just overall confused right now. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.
