@Pierrot38
Nearly all consumer notebooks/laptops from all vendors (including HP) now do not have old style Firewire port. There are many things called adapters, converters on market today but nearly all of them won't work properly (I don't know why they are selling those). One note
https://support.focusrite.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207359095-Can-I-use-a-FireWire-to-USB-adapter-to-con...
My suggestion: keep your old computer and transfer your DV tapes to your external HDD and use use avi files on your new notebook/laptop up to the point you can buy a new video camera.
I still have 40+ tapes, used once from 2005/2006. I copied them all to my old laptop/note book which is an HP nx8420 machine then to an external HDD early 2008.
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