Good morning/afternoon all the smart people in the tech zone.

I have a question about Partitions:

I have an existing SATA drive from an external USB unit that has stopped working (the unit, not the drive). I have removed the drive, and inserted it in to my computer itself. However, under Disk Management, when I try to access the partitions with the stored data on them, the only option I have is to 'format them', thus loosing the data stored within.

Is there any way to have my computer recognize the original partitions without formatting them?

Thank you in advance, super smart people.