can you unlocke a hard drive that dosin't match the motherboard

[noname440]

i tried to mod my xbox i struwed up and distroyed my mother board (now it frags). im going to buy i new xbox from a friend pre moded and i want to but my old hdd (cause i got a lot a saved games on it) inside the new pre moded box but i don't now if i could but it in then install evox and unlock it so it will work.