pardon the drop in for emergency help, but i'm sure y'all get my type here a lot.....

i'm running winxp and i have a hard drive that i put in one of those cheap usb cases. i had it connected to a laptop when the power died on the laptop.

now, all machines i plug the drive into recognize that there is an external storage device, but there's no index/directory showing. the drive isn't being read.

error message if i try to read the drive:
E:\ is not accessible
the file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.

i believe all the data is still on the drive and it seems if i can just get it to re-index or rebuild the directory, i'll be ok.

does anyone have any thoughts on how i may be able to do this?

thank you in advance! there's nothing sensitive on the drive, but it does store 4+ years of my music collection!