PC wont power up but I need to get stuff off the harddrive1

So I have an emachines desktop that I want to get rid of because it wont power up. I read that it's probably the power supply but I dont want to buy anything to fix it. I just want it gone. I did buy a new power cord but buying a new power supply for a computer I dont want seems useless. However, I have photos and stuff that I never backed up (yes dumb of me) that I want to get off of it. If I remove the hardrive, am I able to recover the info from the hardrive in the future? This might be a dumb question. But I am not very computer savvy.