Originally Posted by xecutech

When you unplug the old drive, just plug yours back in the same way and fire it up with your recovery cd in the cd drive. If you have xp, your fine.
If it doesnt see your drive, then you may have to set the jumper.
Lets plug it in first and go from there, and be careful not to bend any pins in the plug and don't tear your ide cable when you unplug it from the old drive.