Won't read disk

My Dell died (surprise) and I had all of my data taken from the hard drive (most importantly photos) saved to disk. I now have a MacBook and it won't read this disk. Why?
How do I get the old photos off this disk and onto my MacBook? I don't have another computer to use, what do I do?

Pollyprincess wrote:
it was a laptop, so no external hard drive and no, I don't have the lap top anymore. the person who had been doing repairs(lots of issues with the stupid laptop) saved the info to disk and gave it to me. I let him scrap the machine for parts.
You still haven't really answered my question.
"saved the info to disk" <--what does that mean? CD, DVD?
~Lyssa

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