Restore Time Machine to new Macbook?

A co-workers mom's macbook was stolen but they left the external drive with hopefully backups of photos. Attempted to plug into another machine and the drive is not responding at all. Is there a chance to restore to another machine, or just send the drive out and see if a 3rd party can recover?
Thanks!

should work.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1427

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