Got your message, thank you for the help.
However, the USB drive (the Seagate 250gb) is an external drive and the one that has the data on it I need to recover. The drive in the laptop is fine and I have windows loaded on it and a few other things. I even have a spare laptop drive if it were needed, though considerably smaller than the one in there.
I just need to get the data off the external USB drive and it shows the same thing no matter what computer I hook it up to.