Can't access old XP install on Slave drive

I've been repairing a friend's computer after the PSU blew out the motherboard and CPU (possible lightening strike!)

I've installed all new hardware got XP on there again. I'm now trying to get the old data copied off the old drive.

The drive appears in Explorer as "Local Disk (D" but when I click on it I get the error "D:\ is not accessible. The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable." I can't even get a top-level directory structure to display.

Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Disk Management shows the drive as "Healthy (Active)", but doesn't list any File System and says its complete capacity is "Free Space".


I've dealt with regular XP file ownership things before, but this is quite different and I'm not quite sure what my options are.

The drive may very well be completely dead like the Mobo/proc were, but my friends are pleading me to try and salvage their photo collection and e-mails.

Problem is that I haven't got a sufficiently large spare drive here to do a full file recovery, so I'm wondering if there is anything else I can try first?

I'd appreciate any help anyone can offer, TIA.

Ross.