Originally Posted by raptor_pa

Remove the drive from the laptop. Depending on if it is IDE or SATA and if the pc you are putting it in has SATA if needed then you will need the appropriate adapter. If the drive is still functional it should then be found on the system as a second drive. Best bet to keep it simple is to make sure the same OS type is loaded on both systems. Once you get it physically into the second machine if it doesn't come up for a simple file copy then we can look at recovery options.