Connecting old laptop hd to new pc?

Hello everyone,

Call me lazy but I didn’t think it would be fair to me to search for hours to find some down-to-earth instructions on how in the world to do the following:

I have a Toshiba laptop hd that I would like to connect to my much newer desktop pc. My laptop crashed back in October of 2005 when I was trying to install a wireless usb adapter (I was running xp home on it).

Here’s what I have on hand:

-precision tools
-laptop hard drive to EIDE adapter
-toshiba 7 gb non-bootable hard drive (config.sys is corrupt on that system’s hd)
-emachines t3104 pc running both linux and windows xp home

Will somebody please save me from the confusion and just give me a 1-2-3 type of installation?

Please, pretty please?

Thank you mucho!

Anna