Tecra 8000 - hard drive connection

Hi,
My old Tecra 8000 gave up last night after 4 years' faithful service. It's simply refusing to start booting most of the time. I think it's a motherboard problem as it occasionally boots from floppy and remains stable for about 10 minutes. I know that the hard drive is fine as I can copy files to floppy when booting from floppy into DOS mode. Is there any way I can connect the hard drive to a desktop PC so that I can salvage the files that are on there?
Thanks for your help,
Tom

Hi guys,
Thanks for all of your help, I went and got an IDE/USB convertor this afternoon - I didn't realise that you had to take the case off of the hard drive first to reveal the standard connector. Have rescued all of my data so quite relieved about that...
Thanks again for your help. Best,
Tom

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