arphimo 0 Newbie Poster

My external vanished, says it's unreadable. I have Disk Warrior and booted up from that but it won't bypass the "Initialize/Eject" promp so I'm forced to Eject and, obviously, DW doesn't see it when I go to do the procedure. Any ideas? I'm dead meat in about 24 hrs if I don't get some of those files