One way is to boot off a Linux CD distro that can provide you with read access to the NTFS formatted partition(s) and also supports a USB external hard drive.
Copy and paste contents of laptop disk to external disk. Job done.
Alternatively, remove disk from laptop, insert into a) external USB caddy or b) 2.5 - 3.5" ide adapter in a desktop computer. Copy and paste as before.
The only fly in the ointment would be if you have encrypted any data on the disk with Windows. That will be stuffed unless you can access it with exactly the same account that encrypted it.
If your laptop disk is formatted with FAT32 you might even be able to get a DOS bootable floppy with USB support and do a DOS xcopy /s, but Linux would be far better and easier.
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