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Hard drives are cheap, I just bought a 1Tb for W10 install for around $100, buy another HDD and keep the old one with whatever data is there intact and do what Paul suggested. All SATA drives use the same connectors, you should be able to put the laptop drive in a desktop machine as a secondary drive and read the contents. If later you find there's something you've missed you still have the old HDD to go back to.
If you don't have a suitable desktop PC, HDD cloning docks are relatively cheap and can be used as a read device. I avoid recovery software like the plague, there are a lot of dodgy products out there.
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