Probably best to clear the partitions and reformat the HDD once you connect it to your XP system. You can do that under XP 'Disk Management'.
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I want to put an old hard drive in an enclosure to use it as an external hard drive. It has the files for Windows 97 on it. Would it harm my Windows XP PC if I were to plug it in my computer? Would it even recognize it?

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