Recover hard disk data?

The easiest way is to remove the drive and attach it to a IED/SATA to USB adapter like these - http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Sub...

These things will attach any drive (IDE, desktop, SATA, laptop, CD, DVD) except SCSI drives to any computer with a working USB port.

I use this model - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8... - which has been just perfect for what I do - I repair a lot of computers.

Recover My Files Hard Drive Recovery Windows Recovery Tools

The drive should work, but you may be missing a ton of drivers for the new machine. The wireless card, video card etc... might need you to go find the drivers online.

What might work better is just leaving the hard drive in the new machine and adding the one from the broken computer (you can have multiple hard drives). That way you could get to all your old info, have more space, and you won't have to bother with drivers.

Moving a disk to another computer will work if it's a secondary drive. In 90%+ of the cases, it will NOT boot on another system, due to differences in drivers. You can read it, just can't boot it...(unless second computer is identical model)

probably not just swap it generally you need the same or similar chip sets for hard drives to be interchangeable like that, however you should be able to add it as a secondary Hard drive and be able to get your files off of it through the second computers OS.