Did the laptop have a problem? Is there some reason to believe that the drive may have some damage?
Since the drive is at least being picked up bu the PC, have you tried going to Disk Management and see what it says about the status of the drive?
Assuming this is a Windows machine you are connecting the drive to:
Right Click on My Computer (or Computer) depending on the version of Windows and choose Manage. When the Management Console opens opens go down to Storage, and Choose Disk Management.
The Drive should say something similar to: Healthy(Partition ...)
If it says Healthy you may be able to run a chkdsk on the drive to get it to be browsable again.
Go to Start-Run or the Search Bar(depending on windows Version) and type in "command" and enter.
Then type in:
chkdsk X: /f
where X is the drive letter of the drive in question. Let it run see if it finds any fixable errors.
If the Information is important enough, you can try
's GetDataBack for NTFS assuming that's the way the drive is formatted to scan the drive and see if it can pick up your files. The Trial version will only give you a Tree View of what it can recover you'll need to buy the full version to be able to recover it.
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Phil AKA Vacunita
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Ignorance is not necessarily Bliss, case in point:
Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.
