Have you read the tutorial these comments are on? For an IDE laptop drive you need a converter, described and photographed in the tutorial, and for an ATA laptop drive you can use any SATA capable desktop computer.
If your laptop supports booting from a usb device (this can be determined in the boot order in your BIOS) then you can use a thumb drive or usb CD drive, otherwise removing the hard drive and installing the OS/files outlined in the tutorial is about the easiest way.
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