Will a simple NEWly copied HDD with XP work in the same PC?

[Igor_svk]

So my old 10 year old HDD with XP has fried, and it was taken to a laboratory to restore data, costing 600€.
The data is copied, but some 0.2% were missing, so they tried again, reindexed it, and should be good now.
My father wants to buy a NEW HDD (1000GB, previous was 160), and wants me to make his old PC work.
Will this work, if I simply copy the salvaged data to a new HDD?
I know this can be done with cloning, but I don´t think the data was "cloned". It can´t be cloned anymore, as the disk is fried, so will the simply copy-pasted data work, when put into a new HDD, which will be installed into the old PC?

 

[Lutfij]

When an OS is installed onto an HDD, a partition is creating and a boot directory is also created along side a system reserved drive. As it stands the data is merely a copy and not a physical clone of the dead HDD. If anything you should reinstall the OS. You can look through the salvaged data for hints as to what programs you were using back then.

You know, there have been some success with folks migrating to Windows 10 in spite of being on a 10 year old PC. Mind sharing your specs to get a second opinion?

 

[Igor_svk]

On XP no partitions are created. Only Windows 7 and up and perhaps vista, especially in UEFI.
Heh as a new PC with 10, so will not install 10 on the old one