Using a damaged hard disk in a working PC....?

Hi

If a hard disk has been damaged by someone turning the PC off at the
mains (it wasn't me, by the way!), and this disk was to be then put
into another machine as a slave drive, is there a chance this could
damage the motherboard of this other PC?

Someone has asked me if I'd hook the broken drive up as a slave for
them, just to see if any data can be salvaged, but I wanted to find out
if there was any risk in doing so first.

Thanks folks

.

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