Would this help at all with actually getting it running again on this hard drive? He wasn't concerned really with any of the data/files/pictures/etc on it, because he already had another laptop and simply wanted to get this one back to a usable state (without having the necessary discs to do a reformat). So I'm not worried about any data, just getting the laptop to a functioning state.
Is there any cleaning or operations that could come of hooking it up as a slave that would possibly allow me to put it back into the laptop and get it back up?
Is there any cleaning or operations that could come of hooking it up as a slave that would possibly allow me to put it back into the laptop and get it back up?