How can recover files from a HD with damaged "permissions"

I had a second HD drive installed on my macbook pro with my iPhoto library and other files stored and, for my own stupid reasons, which had not been backed up for over 3 months. It was actually the original Toshiba boot drive that came with the machine. I replaced it with an SSD over 18 month ago no problems.
The drive now has permission errors which the OS X disk utility cannot repair. I cannot copy the iPhoto library to my main drive and half way through the copying process a get an "error reading disk" message. I cannot open the iPhoto library using iPhoto either.
I decided to remove the HD and replace with a new larger and faster drive as the existing one was probably over 5 years old. No problems with the new drive whatsoever.
I am tried connecting the faulty drive using a USB interface and running the disk repair utility - no difference. Although I was able to copy smaller files other than the iPhoto Library.
I am running 10.10.1.
Is there anyway or any 3rd party app that can recover the iPhoto library? I don't want to waste money buying one of these so called great apps that ends up doing no better than the standard OS X. I read somewhere they all use the same code within OS X to repair anyway!
Ideas appreciated. The iPhoto libabry has my daughters 2nd birthday photos on it and our last holiday therefore I am in big trouble.

Try to to open the iPhoto Lib (right click) and Show Package Contents. Go to the the Masters folder (it must be organized by date folders), choose an image or folder and see if you can copy instead of the iPhoto Lib.

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