No, as they use ribbon cables =(
At least the machines I work on do...But there not modern machines.
and even if you could you would not be able to boot from it as its pretty unlikely you can boot from another machines hard-Drive even if you have the same os, has to be from that machine, although its not impossible as I have inserted what I believed to be blank HDDs into a machine and booted into windows....But often this just wont work even if its from a working machine, I think its something to do with drivers or hardware I have no idea tbh.
Best bet is pick up a external hard drive read that can take Laptop HDDs and use it as an external drive and get the files you need off of it.
At least the machines I work on do...But there not modern machines.
If the laptop just needs a new battery its easy to do, just take all the screws out and put them in a cup so you don't loose them and slowly and carefully start dismantling it down to the mother board and then put in a new battery and put it together again, one new working laptop XD
There is likly a guide for this for your laptop on youtube or something...
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^^ OOPS I thought you were the OP sorry!
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THIRD EDIT LOL DID NOT SEE LINK.
I dont see any reason why you could not use that and just treat it as a external drive lol, yhea should work, I duno 100% though...
oh and I have only been into computers for a few mounths now anyways ahahah.