This morning I got a pop-up that looked like an official update notice for Adobe acrobat pro (I have CS 5.5) after what looked like an official looking adobe update my anti-virus started flashing warning messages about blocked websites that the computer was trying to access. IP addresses tracked back to some jackasses in Russia.

 Instead of going the rout of paying for and loading some  removal tool I unplugged the drive and bought a new drive for the PC. The OS, updates and anti-virus software is all re-installed now. Now I have to re-load data from my runtime (I did have a backup but it was a few months old.)

Will it be safe to plug this old drive back into a SATA port and retrieve my old data? Will I need to do something special with the drive while copying files? I need to copy my runtime, my Reason folder and probably my USER folder (desktop, pics, videos, iTunes, etc.)

I'm running windows 7 ultimate  and my anti-virus software is ESET Nod32.

any help would be great and yeah, I know I should be emailing support at eset but the automated thing just pointed me at giving them more money for the cyber security product which I have doubts actually would fix my problem.  

W10, Ryzen 5 1600x, 16Gb,RTX2060Super+GTX980, PP11, 11.3.740