Need help installing drive to new computer...

Ok, I consider myself to be pretty savy about my computer but this one has me stumped. I got a new desktop pc and I wanted to remove the secondary drive from my old pc and install it as a secondary in my new computer because it has all of my files on it. I removed and installed the drive into my new computer making the orginal hard drive the master and the secondary as a slave. Everything booted up just fine and the secondary drive shows up just fine in device manager. But, when I go into Explorer to access my data this is what I see:

The secondary drive has been named to BOOTWORK (D) with the followiing files listed:

I386 Folder
ATRSBOOT File
NTDETECT.COM MS DOS Application
NTLDR File
WINNT.SIF SIF File
WINPE.ISO ISO File

So then I decided to put my secondary drive back into my old computer and just try and burn everything to a CD and copy it that way. Well when I installed it back into my old computer it tells me the same thing as it did in my new computer! I'm so frusturated I'm about to pull my hair out. What am I doing wrong?

Both systems are running Windows XP on the master drives. The secondary drive was for data storage only. Somebody please help me out so that I don't lose all that data on that hard drive. Thanks for any help you can give.

Wendy Peek ~ Dallas, Texas

 

have you tried to installing it in an external hd case

 

The files you list:

look like a recovery partition.
Recovery partitions are often placed on the C drive of new computers by OEMs, to be used to reset the drive to factory specs.
Was this "slave drive" ever a master ( C ) drive?

 

No I haven't.

 

No, it's always been a slave drive.