Depending on your operating system this may or may not work, take the drive that has your songs on it and move the jumper on the back of the drive from the Master to the Slave position. Now install the drive on the middle plug position of one of the IDE cables. Go into your BIOS and set it to auto detect IDE the drive.
This will have you set up correctly and the BIOS should recognize it but if it was your C: drive from the old computer, Win95 through ME won't let you have more than one drive labled as C:. XP and 2K ignore drive lables and should allow you to access it.

I would try to figure out what is wrong with your old PC as it sounds like a short is present in the PS if your getting shocked. Try another PS but whatever you do don't touch the case to test for voltage, use a VO meter. Remember saftey first, if you don't know what your doing take it to someone who does.

I'm sorry to say but whatever caused this problem with old PC may have cooked your HDD so you may not be able to retreive anything.

If you need more help just post in the DAW forum.

Hey man, thanks for the tips.....got it all figured out now, HDD still works....

I wanted to do it this way because that computer is a 533mhz celeron with 256mb Ram and a 20 gb drive

my internet computer is a 450 PIII with 192mb ram and a 6gb drive....

I figure after I get the files and software i want off the drive I can format it and ad it to this system, as well ubgrade the ram.....

....then when I get my new interface, I can put the old one in the PIII....

THanks again man, for the help

No problem, glad I could help and good luck to you.