[Ham-Computers] Help with HP laptop

[Brian K. Gaskamp]

Hello to all the group. I need some info on how to do this.

A friend of mine brought me their laptop which is a HP G60.
Their 1 yr old son accidently spilled some liquid onto the keyboard and it 
fried the motherboard.
I tried to power the laptop up with no luck.

What I need to know is if I pull the HD out of the laptop is there anyway to 
get whatever info is on the HD say only a external HD and save it to upload 
to their new computer.

I'm sure thats not possible but figured I would ask here.

Or if anybody know a trick on how to jump start the laptop with jumper 
cables that would even better, but pretty sure once the liquid hit the 
insides of the laptop, that was the end of its life.

Suggestions...Comments....

Thanks,
Brian

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