DV9925nr - How to Backup Hard Disk Drive After S.M.A.R.T. Drive Failure Message

I purchased a DV9925nr laptop from Bestbuy about 13 months ago. Six months ago it started having the sporadic and randomly abrubt shutdown problem that so many others seem to be having. 
Two days ago it developed a new problem:
I left my laptop on for a few minutes and when I returned, it was to a black screen with this message: "SMART Drive failure predicted on Hard Disk 4. WDC WD2500BEVS - 60UST0-(S1); warning: Immediately backup your data and replace your hard disk drive. A failure may be imminent. Press F1 to continue."
My question:
We have a network with two laptops and a desktop computer. There is plenty of hard drive space on the desktop system. My father has the same exact laptop model as mine. Can I put my hard disk drive into his second disk drive bay so that I can backup my files over the network to my desktop system? How would the laptop know which hard drive to boot from since they both have the same operating system on them (I am not familiar with SATA drives)?
I hope I didn't buy a lemon. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Are you trying to do this while booted from the OS or from the install Disk? If your booted into the OS then the repair option shouldn't be click-able. Beyond that, there might be some 3rd party software that could force a reformat and/or erase. I did try to find you something but didn't come across anything specific to what your trying to do. You probably already know this, but the purpose of S.M.A.R.T. is it acts as an early warning indicator. This means the drive is no longer dependable and may fail without warning in the near future, resulting in losing all data. With that being said, I've used a hard drive that S.M.A.R.T. indicated was failing for 3+ years without a hick-up. I don't use it for anything imported though. When I have more time and if I come across anything that might get the job down, I will add to this posting. The worst case scenario is that there is no way to reformat and/or erase the drive due to the state it's in. At that point, the only thing left to do is recycling the drive.

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