Forgot to Partition to efat, anyway to transfer to Windows 10?

My Macbook Pro’s hard drive recently died completely. I have a WD My Passport for Mac which I saved everything on, but I didn’t realize it had to be formatted to efat to transfer to a windows computer. Is there anyway I can still transfer the files (even if manually) to my new Asus laptop, running windows 10?

If not, should I buy a cheap hard drive, install it into my old mac to transfer all the data back to the computer, and THEN correctly set up the passport? Or should I just do that in the first place?

i’m assuming the WD My Passport for Mac is currently formatted HFS

there’s lot of software that allow a Windows PC to read a Mac/HFS formatted hardrive

just for example (dunno if Win 10 compatible, but it’s totally Free): Catacombae - HFSExplorer