If your 80 gig is formatted such that the OS on your new rig can access it, you should be ok. If it has a drive overlay used to work around a size limitation from the old machine, this could be trouble, however. I presume this is an IDE drive. Just set the jumpers properly for the cable you will be using.
I have a 80gig WD hd in my current machine running as drive D, no OS just files, mainly photos.
New machine next week has a 200gig sata drive as standard and I would like to just swap the 80g straight into the new machine. Is this just a simple "bolt it out, bolt it in and switch on" or are there likely to be other complications to be aware of?
mtia,
Denis

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