Recovering photo's from crashed HP desk top hard drive on to my Toshiba Satellite A505-S6980?

I recently had my HP desk top crash.The HP says it cannot find any operating system but powers up and I do not have any kind of recovery disc for it. Is there any way to connect the hard drive to my Toshiba to recover the documents and photos? I'm not to computer savy but, with guidance I can probably figure it out. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
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In that case you'll need to see if one of these recovery tools provides a self booting disk option to recover the data or take the hard drive out of the HP, put it in a usb external enclosure for that type of drive (not sure if it is SATA or EIDE), connect it to your Toshiba, and run the recovery software from the Toshiba.
http://www.easeus.com/datarecoverywizard/recover-formatted-partition.htm
http://www.partition-recovery.com/
http://www.diskdoctors.net/recover-accidentally-formatted-partition.html
There are also some free tools that are worth a try.
http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/partitioneditors.shtml
If you don't post your COMPLETE model number it's very difficult to assist you. Please try to post in complete sentences with punctuation, capitals, and correct spelling. Toshiba does NOT provide any direct support in these forums. All support is User to User in their spare time.

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