Data Drive Not Showing

A friend of mine had a external harddrive with a few terabytes of data. It started not to work. I took it apart and plugged it into the hot swap bay. It shows up in disk management but I cant access it. Is there a way to rescue the drive without reformatting?

>will the drive not ititialize in disk management?

>use the old cmd prompt - xcopy command - will copy everything if *.* is specified

>gui's like this are around http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/OS-Enhancements/RoboCopy-GUI.shtml

I would use the command prompt if you can. If that fails, boot up a linux distro and see if you can see it there and backup from there.

Good luck.