Help hooking up old hard drive from exploded computer?

[Windexerr]

So years and years back I had a gaming PC that ended up blowing up while playing a fishing simulator, after it blew up I never tried to turn it back on at all or anything so I dont know if it was just the graphics card or what, but I had two hard drives hooked up to the computer, now I have two gaming pc's and was wondering if I could safely hook up the hard drives to one of my current machines and access the old files on them, or should I not even try due to the computer blowing up? Like could they possibly mess up my current pc if they were shorted during the explosion or something like that. 

 

[Sanedish]

No, you will be fine.

Before you hook them up though: Make sure they have no operating system installed, otherwise you will have a life time dual boot menu on your PC.

[Windexerr]

ahhh shit that might be a problem then :L 
I bet there's some advanced way I could wipe the OS off whichever one has it on it though, I'm hoping lmao.

[Windexerr]

10 minutes ago, Sanedish said:

No, you will be fine.

Before you hook them up though: Make sure they have no operating system installed, otherwise you will have a life time dual boot menu on your PC.

Could I use a partition manager to delete the partition that has the windows boot on it? 

[Sanedish]

Just remove your main disk, copy the files to another disk/USB and shred the partitions.

[Windexerr]

3 minutes ago, Sanedish said:

Just remove your main disk, copy the files to another disk/USB and shred the partitions.

Remove my main disk? Like remove my boot drive I have now and boot into the HDD and just copy the files and then go back and delete the partitions afterwards? 

Sorry for so many questions I always think I know a lot about computers until I run into a task like this and realize I know nothing lmao.

[Sanedish]

Just now, Windexerr said:

Remove my main disk? Like remove my boot drive I have now and boot into the HDD and just copy the files and then go back and delete the partitions afterwards? 

Sorry for so many questions I always think I know a lot about computers until I run into a task like this and realize I know nothing lmao.

Nah, I am in this forum to help, no matter who or how many questions they got. Byt yeah, boot from the drive, maybe get some windows install stick and just delete the partitions with windows on it, or dual boot.

[Windexerr]

37 minutes ago, Sanedish said:

Nah, I am in this forum to help, no matter who or how many questions they got. Byt yeah, boot from the drive, maybe get some windows install stick and just delete the partitions with windows on it, or dual boot.

Okay nice, I've got a windows install stick already that has its own OS with tons of Hardware managers on it already so I'll just boot into that on my secondary PC and then mess around with the Harddrives, mainly trying to get into a old steam account that had tons of games on it lmao. Thank you though, I appreciate the help I wasn't expecting to get answers that fast to be honest.