Does Setup assistant work on mac with broken logic board?

Old 2007 macbook pro died due to logic board failure. But obviously the hard drive is fine and working. Getting a new macbook very soon, and wondering if i can use setup assistant to restore my old computer onto my new one. If not, are there any other alternatives?
(I am willing to take my old computer apart for the hard drive if that is necessary.

Should not be too hard. You will need to remove the drive from your computer and put it into an external case. You can either attach it your computer upon first boot, and it should offer to copy your information for you, or you can drag/drop the data you want on your new computer manually. I prefer to copy over manually, so i know what is coming over. The only problem I can see is if the bad logic board caused some sort of data corruption as it was failing. I doubt it, but there is that chance. In that case, something like Disk Warrior or Data Rescue could come in handy to recover the data.

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