Hard drive file recovery. Have T2542 E machine that is almost obsolete although bought only in

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Have T2542 E machine that is almost obsolete although bought only in Oct2003.Have some files that are in hard drive and needs to be retrieved .The CPU has been opened up with hard drive removed.How do u advise to recover the data from the hard drive,except that I mayneed to ship to agency to extract these files? Sandip Pandya 212-460-4126