Playstation 3 and a enclosure kit

My playstation isn't working so i have to send it to sony for it to be fixed. It has it where its got the flashing red lights. Anyway, since I was able to hang on to my hardrive since it wasn't the factory one, it was my upgraded one. I was wondering, is it possible for me to use an enclosure kit to take the ps3 hardrive i have and use it to tranfer files to another playstation 3 since the enclosure kit makes it like an external harddrive.

then i better hope that they can fix my system and not give me a new one. it like are flashing red which means that fan is probably broken or something.

Well, if you can, go for it. Cause once you pop it back into your PS3, it auto formats. So if you can back up your saves and what not, do it.