Installing an old NTFS drive on Mac Pro.

So I've just recently got round to ditching my old PC that has been busted for a while and just sat under my desk. I did think it would be nice to see if there is anything I want on its hard drive though. I wondered if I could plug it in to my Mac Pro with the hopes that it would read it ok. However when I do that the Mac doesn't boot just the fan gets faster and faster.
Is there a way to get it to be read by my Mac Pro or will I need a PC to read the drive?

Point out that many good PC externals have not mounted natively and could not read.
Found in those cases that Paragon's driver would work and allow.
But get the drive outside the Mac, it has to scan all the drives for valid systems - even a bad HFS+ volume can prevent booting.
Apple's NTFS driver is not as robust even in read-only, and Paragon has good fast I/O with low overhead, makes it easy to use NTFS as data storage.
You might want to install Windows 7 on one of your hard drives and have dual boot, and so you can recover files, and because drive vendor's own utility is the best at mapping out bad sectors. Better than zero all done from Apple Disk Utility.
http://macperformanceguide.com/blog/2011/20110814_2_SoftRAID--howto.html

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