hdd drive with pictures and files how to connect an transfer to other computer ivtec

Hi good people,my son brought me a computer with an old version of Linux 1604 that when goes through booting process it stuck on terminal ,[SDB] Asking for cache failed ,some times after a lot of rebooting and repairing in the recovery it goes to desktop, it takes a few tries to boot to desktop , it wont update and can't transfer files to usb or cdR can't connect to internet,it just wont do normal functions,i want to transfer pictures from this HDD to a USB or CD how can i go about to connect this hard drive to a working computer and collet these pics,or try to fix this ops.thanks