Ext HD Crash - Now reads wrong size!

Quick overview:
My external 500GB HD fell off the table and disconnected.
The Mac quickly showed the "HD has been disconnected" warning.
On reconnecting, the drive comes up as unitialised, requesting that I either ignore, init, or eject the drive.
Drive Utility reads it as a 2TB drive!!! (note that its only a 500GB)
Prosoft Data Rescue also sees it as a 2TB drive, and claims it will take 7500 hrs to scan!
The drive appears to turn on fine, makes no noise whatsoever apart from the usual HD spinning sound. No clicks, no pops, no grinding... nothing.
Short of letting Data Rescue work on it for the next year(!) does anyone have another suggestion or helpful hint. About half of the drive is backed up, but the rest are not, and I would rather not lose this data.
Thanks very much!

Hi subgrav;
Since the disconnect and fall seem to have screwed up the drive so bad that neither the operating system nor Data Rescue are able to recognize it correctly, you only solution might be to send it off to a service that specializes in salvaging data from drives. Of course, that will not be cheap and it is possible they might not be able recover anything worthwhile.
Allan

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