Cheryl, You should have no trouble adding the 2000 hard drive as a slave drive to the XP system. Javier Ornelas MSU Health Information Technology A118-K Clinical Center East Lansing, MI 48824 (517) 355-6531 phone (517) 432-4774 fax ----- Original Message ----- From: MSU Network Administrators Group <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Thu Jan 31 18:53:41 2008 Subject: [MSUNAG] Win 2000 HD as second disk for XP system Hi all, I have a windows 2000 hard disk which won't boot. I can see the files, so it's not completely trashed. I would like to install this disk as a second disk on a Win XP computer to recover the data files (that weren't backed up - ARRRRGGGGHHHH) My question is, will the XP system read the files from the 2000 disk.