How can I read a Win 8.1 Boot Disk on a Win 7 machine?

I just had what I think was a power supply failure on my HP desktop running Win 8.1.  
My issue is, while the machine is away getting fixed, I need to be able to read content from the HDD, to use my HP Laptop to do work in the meantime.
I have a USB bridge that I often use to hook up to SATA drives, to read/write, etc.  But for this disk, when I connect it to the interface, and plug it into the Win 7 laptop USB, it shows up as a RAW drive, Keeps wanting me to format it.
I know this probably has to do with the encryption "feature" under UEFI, and Secure Boot, but I'm getting out of my depth with the nuances of 8.1.
I know it should be possible to read this disk, given the proper software, etc.  But how do I do it?  I really need access to some of this data, and read-only access would be fine with me, if that is all I can get.
I did create a "Recovery Hard Disk" for that machine on another drive, so I have that, but until I get the machine back, that doesn't seem to do me any good.  Or will it?  How?
Anyone have any ideas?  Any suggestions?  This is getting to be a major headache...
Thanks,
Ron

Hi,
What's the disk type of Windows 8.1 system, GPT or NTFS? It's really hard to identify where the problem it is, but you can try to fix the Disk by using checkdsk command:
Open CMD, then type the command: Chkdsk /f X: X stands for drive letter.
If there is any progress with this problem, please feel free let me know.
Roger Lu
TechNet Community Support

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