G'day Koala,
It's good you kept it. As you know I've had major computer problems and now on new computer the last couple of days and I'm going to take my old hard drive out today if I get time and transfer what I need onto my new one. That will save me having to buy or download them all over again. I just got some new device yesterday called an "Easy IDE", which should allow me to do that. xing fingers. lol

After I've done that I'm going to just buy a case for the drive and use it as external storage that I can plug into the laptop. You could do the same.

Hopefully this all works. Will let you know.