My Book Essential 2 TB Problem when trying to Use on other Laptop No Visible Files

Newbee here…had enough trouble just posting…here goes

I am basically using the My Book Essentails to store DVD Movies…have about 1 1/2 TB filled  in various sub-files like

Sci-Fi~ Westerns etc… workks great on my Dell…tried to connect to my Toshiba nada

I check properties and it shows that  1 1/2 TB are used but my Files will not show.

I do not have the original program on the My Book…took it off to save room but have it stored on another HD because i didn’t want the auto record feature going 24/7.

Both are W7 by the way~~  I did copy the program I deleated off the My Book and transfered it to the Toshiba Laptop “C” Drive.  I was hoping that would help… should I have opened it up and install the drive… I kind of thought by loading ~ or rather transferring it to the other Laptop’s “C” drive that was all i needed to do.  1 other weird thing is when I look at the drive in the “My Computor” box it shows an icon in the lower left of  2 people images??  Don’t know if that means anything or not.  I did retry the  unit on my Dell…works great.  If I am to reload a drive would you include a link in the response for that?  Thank you.

If you can see the files fine on of your computer, then the files are provably hidden, check the link below for the steps to show hidden files.

http://windows.microsoft.com/is-IS/windows-vista/Show-hidden-files