Problem with hard disk with a macbook

have a macbook (a) and a macbook pro (b). my wife managed to drop the macbook and it does not longer want to start up. the DVD reader gave up some time ago
I connected a with b via firewire, and a (after about a minute, comes up (after pressing T) with the sign, but does NOT appear as a hard disk on computer b. I would like to do that, to recuperate some files on a and copy them onto b.
What am I doing wrong?

just checked after an article in Cnet, and doesn t appear either when opening Disk Utility ...

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