Hello,
You cannot access the hard drive of a broken computer like that.
You will need to take the hard drive out of the broken computer and add it
as a second hard drive to your working laptop (if it supports having more
than one hard drive).
Or, you can buy a disk enclosure and put the old hard drive inside of it,
then connect the disk enclosure to a working computer via a USB cable and
then access it in the manner that you described.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_enclosure http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=...disk+enclosure
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- JB
Windows Vista Support Faq
http://www.jimmah.com/vista/