Can not access old XP HDD on Win 7

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A friend of mine had a laptop that was broken by their child (nothing internal, just the keyboard and screen), and they asked if I could get their files off for them. Having done this in the past without issue I agreed. I removed the HDD from the XP laptop and plugged it into my Win 7 desktop. At first I could not even get my PC to boot. It would get to the windows logo screen, then just sit there loading forever. I went into my bios, made the port hot swapable and booted my PC without the HDD connected to the SATTA port. I plugged in the HDD and after a bit it showed in my list, kinda. The drive shows as Local Disk E, and it loaded a HP_RECOEVERY (G:) drive as well. The G drive is fully functioning and I can see/access all the files inside, but the E drive will not work. The drive will not show its capacity and if you try and open it, explorer freezes and must be force closed/restarted. Any time I try and do anything to fix this that requires the drive to be read it doesn't work. Drive manager just sits saying connecting to virtual disk service, any program I have tried to use to find/recover partitions, just sits at its first loading process. I would really like to help my friend get all their files back. If anyone has any ideas I can try for this I would GREATLY appreciate the advice. Thank you in advance for any help.
 
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It can be a sign that the drive you are talking about is damaged.

It is possible, that if the screen and keyboard of the laptop were damaged.
That the hard drive has also suffered damage in relation to impact, or a heavy weight or force has been exerted enough to force the read and write heads of the HD on to the disk platter of the hard disk drive damaging the read and write heads or the disk platter.

Considering the screen and the keyboard were broken if the key board was also bent warped or miss shaped it could be the case. Did you consider that ?

It would also explain slow access of the drive information, and why windows explorer freezes when trying to access the partition of the drive.

Even if you formatted the drive and it still exhibited the same problem it would indicate that the drive is physically impaired.

The easy way is to ask if the laptop was dropped, or a very heavy weight or load was exerted on it.
Then you have your answer as to why the drive does not function as it should, physical damage.
Time to ask how the damage was inflicted.
 
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I will have to ask what else might have happened with the lap top today, but the damage I mentioned was not impact. It was adhesive. The child had smeared adhesive all over the lap top and closed it. When this was forcibly opened (also could be a possible source of damage) it destroyed the laptop. When I have time later I am going to try and replace the HDD and get the charging cord from them. Might be able to just hook up a monitor and keyboard tot he old lap top and access it that way.

 
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