Tx1000 hard disk as external drive

After my tx1000 POT (piece of trash) burned out like everyone elses, I removed the hard disk and connected it as a USB drive through a standard external drive box. It powers up, spins, and is recognized as both as USB device and a disk drive by my new (not HP) computer, which is running XP and not Vista like the HP was. However, under Properties, I cannot seem to get the Volume to populate, receiving only the messages of "not readable" and partition style "not applicable", with the drive read as 0 MB. The driver is updated and listed as functioning properly. What next? I cannot fathom walking into an HP service center with my tail between my legs to pay them to help me with this, but I do need to access my old hard disk.

Is this a SATA disk? You may need the intel driver installed on your XP computer, XP by default, doesn't support SATA fully. Goto www.intel.com and look for SATA driver download for XP.
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