Well, if he can see the drive with a new install then the drive might be functional (somewhat) but if he cannot pull stuff and what not off of it, then the FS is messed up somehow.
Of course the FS might be ok, and the hdd being bad is making the FS not work like it should. Either way, the drive is probably bad.
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