Windows 10: Attempting to read an old hard drive on a newer OS system

I had a Dell Dimension 4550 pc that ran Windows XP finally die recently. I believe the cause of death was the power supply. I used the pc to access old XP and Windows 95 formatted files and music from an accessory HD I stalled. When it died, I removed the hard rives. The original HD is a Hitachi Deskstar 30GB. I hooked it up to a Unitek USB to IDE+SATA converter to run it on a laptop running Windows 10 hoping to read the drive. When power is applied to the old HD, it runs and the laptop sees it as an accessory drive but it's in a query loop. No files are shown. My IT guru at work says

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new system old hard drive...

I have an old hard drive that has those old ribbon connections to transfer data to the mother board.

I have a new computer that mostly uses those cool little ATA (I think that is what they are called) connections.

The new computer has a Vista OS.

I opened up the case and I was supprised to see on the motherboard a wide ribbon connection and so I connected the old hard drive and a free power connection.

When I turned on the computer, the system started up like usual and did not notice the new hard drive.

I went to the Control Pannel and did an automatic add hard drive call and it did not find the old hard drive.

Any suggestions?

 

Hard drive/ OS issue

a guy suggested :

• shutdown
• unhooked HDD
• restarted
• yay !!
• reconnected HDD
• restarted
• yay !!

also , try method 3
How to Unlock Drive in Windows 10: 5 Ways to Remove a Lock

 

hard drive

the hard drive that came with newer computer works fine but it wont recognize the other hard drive , when i tried to put the old one in in place of it , I put the right one back in and it s fine I guess my basic question was your suggestion of installing
the old hard drive as a secondary drive