Done it myself. Just make sure your HD is set for slave. XP will see it as just another drive. Copy what you wish, then do what you want.
Your logic is correct.
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if you read my other post my pc is messed up but the hard drive is perfectly fine. Now there are some very important files on there and i was wondering that if i were to put that hard drive in my dad's pc, what will happened? his pc has XP and XP is also on my hard drive. i was wondering if there is a way i can just get the files out of there? because if i can just get the files i can then move them to my dad's hard drive and erase what on my hard drive and then add it as more storage to another pc

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