Can I hook an Powerbook hard drive to an external drive bay?

I'm trying to help a friend out with his Powerbook. For some reason, when he plugs in the power cable to it, it doesn't seem to recognize it. He's tried 3 different cables, so I'm thinking it's the piece in the motherboard.
Now, Mac motherboards are new to me. He has another Mac he's using and he just wants to get the data off of the hard drive. Is there an external bay we can get so we can get that data from his old Powerbook to his new Mac?

The easiest thing would be to put the PB into target disk mode, but it sounds like that isn't going to work with no power and a bad motherboard.
It's about a 30 step process to remove a hard drive from a PB, but once you have it out there's dongles that let you plug in various drives and attach them via USB to a computer.
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