Yeah, you have some options, if your computer is as old as you say it is, then it has an IDE/(P)ATA drive, which is the ribbon style drive.
If you are going to buy a new drive, and install windows on it (I can hook you up with a copy if you need it, you will just have to burn it yourself), then you can hook up your old drive as a secondary drive and move stuff from the old to the new (after its up and running). Or you can do what you said above, the easiest thing to do, so you don't have to mess with any jumpers, is open her computer, unhook the data ribbon and the power cable from her cd rom, then hook those cables to your drive, boot it up and your drive should be the D: drive on her computer, when finished take your drive back out, and hook her cd rom back up.
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-- .:Splak|StackableNut --Cornholio wrote:
blah thats nothing, i built houses for pirates, then do pirating myself. Then I shoot my self and perform bullet removal surgery on myself. After that I go to boot camps to train kids to kill. Then i go and fight on the Iraq war for both sides. After all i go later and drink some 7up cause ill be thirsty as shit.