Hello Leon
You can get an adaptor to go from a IDE to SATA connector,
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/40280615...frcectupt=true
In your bios you can set the drive to be " hot swappable " meaning you don't need to turn the computer off, your normal OS will load and you then see the new drive like a big USB stick.
But given your problems with computer problems in the past, is it worth looking at what might be on a ten year old drive?
Ed