External drive help! Need a hardware wizard!

Hello,
I have a brand new 500GB external that tipped over while it was spinning. It got ruined with about 350GB of info on it. I have in the past used Drive saver and spent over $800 to retreive info on a 250GB drive, and this time I was not about to shell out the $1200bucks they want to retreivefrom the 500GB.
I am aware that the following will void my warranty.
I posted in the past here, and someone talked to me about replacing the plates from one drives to another. I opened the damaged drive and noticed the reading arm had skipped off the hard disk plates, and that the disk edges were damaged. The poster, suggested that the reading arm could be damaged. I figured that I'm willing to buy a new drive for $140 (same as the other one) and risk the $140 and attempt to replace the 3 plates from the inside the damaged drive to the inside of the new drive.
Well it could not read it and got the error message that the drive could not be read and did I want to initialize it. I clicked yes, and used disk utility to initialize it, and got error message :"Disk erase failed input/output error". Although the icon of the drive appears in disk utility, it reads next to it" 2.0TB DMI" it is a 500GB.
So now I am left with what I feared, is 2 X 500GB not recognized by the computer and not initializeable.
Anyone knows a magic approach to this hardware problem? With technologies becoming available to the common "mortal" out there, is there something out there I could use to get my drives back to normal.... Maybe I could buy a $300 piece of hardware even if it was $500... it would be cheaper that using Drive saver. .... How does Drive saver do it?
Do the 3 plates have to be alligned in a certain way to be operational?
I need Magic Tom!
Michel
Message was edited by: Michel Vézina

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