hard drive crashed

Thishard drive crashed for unknown reason.
Previously it was my primary drive. I now am
trying to connect it up to get data off of it, but
when I go to Computer Management / Storage
/ Disk Management
This disk shows up, but it says, "You must
initialize a disk before Logical DiskManager
can access it."

I amconcerned that doing this step will
ultimately make recovery of the data more
difficult.

Cananyone suggest a better way for me to
fish the data off this drive? Or is it safe for me
to initiale the disk?

مشكور اخى العزيز

واسعدنى مرور الكريم

علما باننى اعمل على ويندوز 2008