USB HDD went funny I think its boot/partition info is bad the data is there so says a recovery program that uses its own scanning method to look for files.

I pulled it from its maxtor enclosure and put it on the stat connect..funny a seagate HDD in a maxtor case...no wonder its gone funny in da head.... anyway I can find it in admin tool/ disk management but it will not explore it, I do not have the space to back up the data and wipe the drive anyone know how to fix a ntfs partition issue like this?

While you are at it I have this partitioned dell hard rive I want to dump the install partition and have the windose partition boot up normally so I can back up just that partition and install a normal windows on it but I can do neither untill I reset the boot info/partition to run without the crappy dell XP installation partition... and no I'd rather not do a full fcking install....