My Passport in device manager, not seen in file explorer

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Hi, I have a my passport 1TB external non wireless hard drive. Just a day or so ago, not from anything I can think of having done, it stopped showing on file Explorer. It ‘beeps’ 7 times, 3 times and then 3 times. This youtube video shows what I’m pretty sure the problem is (note I haven’t opened mine up because of the dangers, this just shows the issue) WD 2TB My Passport Beeping , how to fix it ? - YouTube

It is shown in disk management but it says I have to re initialise and therefore it would wipe the drive (If I go through with it, it gives me a fatal error). Also smart ware states the drive has no writable partition.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, I need the data off of the hard drive. I can get rid of the hard drive after, not worried about it.

Thanks

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Attempting to initialize the hard drive may have further compromised the unit’s integrity, which would make recovery attempts harder.

Did you browse online for a data recovery application? If no success is archived then perhaps it would be best to contact a specialized data recovery service company.