Only if the drive is not protected or encrypted.
If it is then at best more work, at worst all but impossible and inbetween unless very high probability of accessing something 'interesting' not wort the effort.

I run Photorec on Disks or SD cards that might be interesting. That also gives me some of the deleted pics.

That depends on the encryption used. If the laptop was running Windows, then you can most probably crack it by letting your machine work on the drive overnight. If it was Linux with LUKS and some serious combo of cipher and hash, then just don't bother, format it and you've got a new hard drive for yourself.

Can we see?

Boss's Wife
 

Some years ago I worked at a company run by the boss and his ex-wife.

He was a No 1 Arsehole but his ex-wife was really nice. I had a suspicion from the files on his laptop that he might have taken some pictures of her while they were together. He had a folder of pictures where she was wearing a short skirt and some downblouse shots but nothing graphic.

I was clearing out some drawers in the office and discovered a bunch of memory cards from an old camera. Intrigued I scooped them up and ran them on my PC but they were all work-related. On a hunch I took them home and ran the through my recovery software.

Holy cow! There were about a dozen short videos of the bosses wife lying on the bed in lingerie playing with a vibrator. Her bra is pulled down revealing her boobs and she quickly takes off her knickers fully exposing her pussy for the sex-toy. There were also some screen shots from the videos.

I had to go in to work the following day and interact with the ex-wife knowing exactly how she looked naked with a vibe in her pussy!

I’ve got a decent number of photos of one of my best female friends. Known her since school and spent most my life wanking over her holiday snaps. One day I got lucky and found some nudes of her when she accidentally gave access to her Google Drive for 2 minutes. She has no idea.

My girlfriend’s friend also sent her a topless photo asking for her opinion on something. My gf told me but refused to let me see and deleted. Thankfully I was able to take a photo off my phone in the deleted folder while she was asleep!

How close we talking? How did you acquire it?

My wife would kill me if she knew I had these pics of my step-niece posing naked in a field. She accidentally put them up on Instagram but didn't take them down quick enough...

Don’t be shy

I have pics of my female best friend completely naked. We were messing about giving each other silly tasks to perform and I gave her the task of taking naked pics of herself. She did and the next day she sent them to me.

I also have naked pics of my male best friend's wife. We got on really well and she let me take them one day while we were in the house alone.

I've also got topless pics of a female friend I don't see anymore, but they're on an old phone that I don't have a power cable for, so can't get it working to get the pics off it.