My hard-drive was unplugged & has been erased Please Help!!

My hard-drive has been unplugged by my dog walking across me one too many times while I work I guess. There are files on here that aren't in other places. Is ther anything I can do? Sometimes it doesn't even show up when I plug it in. Other times I get an option to initalize and then I can see this if I click it. But I have not done anything yet. Is there hope to recover it?

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