Well I finally got it to load. Even though I had tried it a dozen times rpeviously with no luck, this time when I clicked "format drive", it lagged for a bit but a couple minutes later the format option screen finally popped up. Now I can see the drive in Disk Manager and My Computer. I can open it and even scan it with Partition Find and Mount.
The only thing is, with Partition Find and Mount, it says no visible partitions found.
How could I go about recovering the data on the drive? Would I need to run recovery software now or would I need to format it first? Or is there nothing I can do?'
Edit - I also ran the TestDisk program, but after selecting Analyse I get "Partition: Read Error". I had started the quick search but after 12 hours it was only at 1%. So at that rate it would take weeks.