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[Sergius]

You can use a USB/SATA cable but the transfer rate would be too low. A regular network cable (the fiber wire thick network cables used in, say, networks) has a much faster transfer rate. Just boot the old one, connect them, interface with your old one using your new, and get the files you want. This might be a bit effy if their OSs are different though, and you might have to manualy configure a small network for it to work. Once you got it set up you can just copy all of your old stuff, it'll still take a while but the transfer rate is much faster then USB at least.

USB 2.0 can copy data at 30-40 MByte/s, which is roughly 2 gigabytes per minute. Not the fastest, but often enough to extract data, and far more convenient than trying to resuscitate a computer with no working video output enough to be able to enable the necessary file shares to copy it over the network.

An older USB version could be really slow tho.