Can I fix a dead PC by only fixing the HD in nother PC?

I am triing to help a friend recover a dead PC. For convenience, I only asked the friend to give me the hard disk.

First, I took a look of whatever left in his hd (set as slave): it has no operating system (not Windows folder etc.), but has a few general document files (folders). Strange, I thought it should either has none, or all files.

My next step is to reinstall the OS. I plan to do it in one of my working PCs.

Will it work? Please advise.

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• 裝了xp，但boot failed: no OS found -hy211- ♂ (95 bytes) () 07/20/2008 postreply 12:47:30

• Reformat ted and reinstalled:OK -hy211- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/20/2008 postreply 18:24:48

• Does your friend's PC have the same hardware as yours? -westmont- ♂ (83 bytes) () 07/20/2008 postreply 14:38:32

• Done installation. But not sure it will also work in his PC. -hy211- ♂ (91 bytes) () 07/20/2008 postreply 18:23:06

• You need uninstall all driver at safe_model -lanyu- ♀ (38 bytes) () 07/21/2008 postreply 09:26:41