Offloading information off a bad hard drive

Greetings,

I have a laptop in my possesion that has a bad hard drive, it says
there is no operating system when booting. I have use Knoppix to
get into the drive, I am trying to save the pictures off the drive before
reformatting and reloading windows back on the system. But, I can
not seem to find a way to get the pictures off the drive.

I even tried removing the drive and plugging it into an external drive
jumper and that will not read the drive.

Any ideas?

Thank you,
Jessica