Drive external hard will appear in disk with unallocated space management

I pulled a hard drive of a computer that I could not get to the job and installed in a case connected to a working computer and external (to pull the data off the drive until I did something drastic).  The USB mass storage device appears in the Device Manager as works fine but disk management displays the hard drive to be unallocated.  How can I access the data?  If I partition, does it wipe the disc?

Thank you for your helpful suggestions.

B

Well you were right - it wouldn't boot.  But I found the menu of the manufacturer and has managed to erase the partition table and master boot record and join the system recovery program.

And thanks for the response - it's good to know there are knowledgeable people on willing to help when you're frustrated working on windows _.

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