Hmm, curious! Now Disk Management doesn't report it as being uninitialized, and it appears in the file manager, but when I try to cut/paste a file from it to another drive, it starts the transfer for a couple of seconds, then splashes a dialog saying that the file can't be found. However if I open it instead, it will play okay in VLC (video file). Under the circumstances DBAN might work...if the BIOS recognizes it (haven't retested yet), but it would be nice to be able to recover some files first.
EDIT: I had just awoke from a nap and wasn't thinking straight, because my previous comment was about another drive that I'm having problems with, not the one I posted about. I can't post the screenshot requested, because I've already boxed the drive for shipment. I would unbox it for a solution, but not for simply portraying what I've already said.