How to access address book that is not on startup drive

I have an external hard drive that is from an old computer of mine. How do I access the address book on that drive without making it my startup drive first?
Thanks.

easy on all caps there
you can do the following to combine address books. start Address book, select all the contacts currently in your address book and drag them to the desktop. that will create one big vcard with those contacts. then quit address book and replace the folder that I told you about with the one from the backup drive. start address book. it will look like it did on the backup drive. drop the vcard you have on the desktop onto the address book. the addresses will be imported.
warning: this procedure will migrate all addresses but will destroy any groups and smart groups you currently have in AB.

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