I have a Hewlett Packard. I have a Hewlett Packard laptop from the UK. I now live in the US and it

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I have a Hewlett Packard laptop from the UK. I now live in the US and it broke down and no longer works. I'd like to get the data off the hard drive to move to a new machine but was told by a repair person that they didn't have the correct wires to do it. Where can I bring the computer to get the data removed from the hard disk?