MacBook Pro data extraction?

Hi there.. I have a 2010 mac book pro that has been water damaged with no back up to the hard drive, i now also have another 2010 macbook pro, is there a way, other than taking to an apple store as too far away, to retrieve the data from the hard drive? Many thanks

it still spins up it just displays this on plugging in,

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