Windows 10: Repair a malfunctioning hard drive with new hard drive with new OS

Say if I had a hard drive that had issues booting OS. Specifically not booting windows or being detected as installed and command prompt remedies were of no help.So instead I decide to do it my way by getting a new hard drive, unplugging the old non-booting one, and plugging the new one and installing windows. Would I be able to repair the broken non-booting one with the new one so I can move files from it?

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New Hard Drive

I have an old laptop I am re-engineering, e.g., new hard drive, RAM, etc. With a new hard drive there will be no windows OS, for that matter any OS. I want to install MS windows pro. How would one install windows pro on a blank new hard drive? When
creating a new PC?

 

new system old hard drive...

I have an old hard drive that has those old ribbon connections to transfer data to the mother board.

I have a new computer that mostly uses those cool little ATA (I think that is what they are called) connections.

The new computer has a Vista OS.

I opened up the case and I was supprised to see on the motherboard a wide ribbon connection and so I connected the old hard drive and a free power connection.

When I turned on the computer, the system started up like usual and did not notice the new hard drive.

I went to the Control Pannel and did an automatic add hard drive call and it did not find the old hard drive.

Any suggestions?

 

Transfer of OS to new hard drive.

I currently have Windows 10. I have a hard drive that is going bad and need to transfer the OS to the new hard drive.

How can it be done?

Thank you