Timemachine doesn't show external drive (that has now died)

Hi, I've had timemachine backing up my HD and two external firewire drives (one with my 11gb iphoto library on it).
If I open the timemachine generated Backups.backupdb folder in the finder, the contents of the 3 drives are all there in separate folders. Fine.
One of the external drives has just died, so I want to restore my iphoto library (i.e. move it from timemachine to the other external drive).
But when I enter timemachine, the dead drive doesn't show up.
If I try to copy the file I want to restore via the finder, it says it will take 450 hours!
What can I do?

Do NOT copy the folder via the Finder.
See #E3 in the Time Machine - Troubleshooting *User Tip* at the top of this forum.

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