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Thought someone might find the solution useful, although I can't really take credit for it...kind of happened by accident.
I ended up putting an old 6GB hard drive in and installing Windows on it, which worked fine. I was then curious if I could read the bad drive as a slave, so I installed it as such and rebooted. Windows (from the 6BG drive) automatically ran a checkdisk and corrected some errors on the bad drive. I tried reading the My Documents folder, but it was still protected. So for "shits and giggles" I tried booting from the bad drive again (as the master), and it worked just as normal, and I can access my files. I still don't trust the drive and will replace it, but at least I have time to back up anything that wasn't already backed up.
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