Recover files of damaged hard drive

Hi guys. My friend's sister managed to spill some alcohol on her laptop, basically killing it. Now she wants her pictures from the hard drive. I have the hard drive in a caddy plugged into my computer. When I try to access it, Windows says I need to format the drive. What're my options for recovering data off it?

 

I know many ways to recover files but first are you sure that the spillage did not affect the Hard Drive?
Some ways involve spending some money, which I'm sure you want to avoid it.

#1 Download Test Disk for windows on your desktop >unxip > look for testdisk_win.exe. Click create a new log, right after this you will see all Hard Drives...highlight the one you are interested click proceed > click Intel > click analyze at this point you will or will not see partition on your hard drive. In any case > click Quick Search....If you find the partition that you looking for highlight click add you will have to enter the starting and ending sector, same with heads and cylinders...In some cases when TD see no errors it will show you dialog at the bottom if you want to write to MBR's what you are seeing...
BTW...read Documentation.

The other way is to download Xubuntu (or Ubuntu) Desktop edition burn the iso file Run the disk...look under Administration drop down menu for Synaptic package manager. click search enter NTFS and hit enter...right click on the packages and mark for installation you are looking for Admin tools for NTFS...then type in search "mountall" same thing mark for installation, you can as well install Test Disk on Linux...After installation see if you can access your drive
Oh you must enable read & write NTFS Drives. Look for this under Administration drop down menu..
the command for test test disk is (you must use terminal for this)
sudo /usr/sbin/testdisk