In need of help to remove hard drive from my naffed pc & install it into my current system

hello all.
yesturday i was given some pretty good advice regarding problems with my pc . now however i need further help as i need to know how to remove the hard drive from my naffed system and install it onto my fugitsu scaleo 600. any help is greatly appreciated
thankyou

Re: HP MEDIA CENTER PC M700 ( M7630.UK ) WINDOWS XP 32 BIT[ Edited ]
11-15-2011 09:44 AM - last edited on 11-15-2011 09:59 AM
Hi:
If you are referring to the picture, you need to open the case to remove that jumper.
If you are referring to how to actually access the BIOS software menu, you do that by tapping the F10 key at the HP welcome screen.
When opening the case of your PC, please make sure you disconnect the A/C power cord.
If you are unfamiliar with opening the case I have posted the link to the service manual below.
http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c00681228.pdf
Your work is not lost. It may be held captive by a broken PC, but you can get it off your hard drive by putting the hard drive currently in your PC into another one as a secondary drive, and copying the data off of it.

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