New pc, old drive

[jbpaulp]

I have a new pc but need to get info off my old HD. unfortunally the old pc has crashed and is asking me to press 'r' when system disk is installed which I cannot do as the xp windows was never genuine.
any help apprieciated

 

[SNGX1275]

Put old hard drive in new computer as slave.

 

[Tedster]

use the drive as a slave and get a legit copy of windows.