Help! Data recovery needed after lapse of thought... Suggestions please

All was going well with my Mini Server, but apart from the boot partition, I had no back-up plan in place which made me uncomfortable. So in seek of a performance upgrade and a back-up solution I ordered a larger 750GB HDD for bay 1 and a SSD for bay 2 along with 8GB RAM and an enclosure for the two existing drives to provide my core back-up solution for bay 1.
Installing the RAM and drives was sweet, but alas I had a lapse of thought at least twice. In my wisdom I decided that as the internal drives would form a core part of my back-up solution, I didn't need to back-up them up before the upgrade as I would clone across afterwards. In hindsight, I should have cloned them first and then put them in.
Anyway, my key oversight was putting the drives straight into a raid enclosure set for JBOD/Span and plugging the drive in. I did not initialize the disk when the window popped up, I chose ignore and then ejected from disk utility. I removed the drives and put them in individual enclosures, but alas simply turning on the drives in the raid enclosure did something to the file system as now they both flag up the initialize window when connecting.
I then purchased Data Rescue 3 in the hope it would recover the files. Unfortunately, on the first drive, whilst the software thought it had recovered most of the data, none of the files will open, with messages warning the file may be corrupt or it is an unrecognised format.
So, has anyone got any suggestions of how to reverse whatever the enclosure did when I switched the drives on? Or any other data recovery solutions I can try?

Good news, after a little more research and switching Data Rescue to expert mode and tweaking the allocation block layout, I managed to recover all bar one small partition for which I have a copy of the files elsewhere I believe the data could be retrieved if I spent time trying to get the file offset, but given I have the files elsewhere I am not going to spend time on it!
So thanks to Data Rescue I managed to recover 450GB of iTunes and another 50GB of other important data. What a life saver as 90%+ of my cd collection is in storage in another country, which would have been somewhat inconvenient!
Something else to learn from this experience though is partitioning a drive means the allocation block layout can be different across the drive, as the partitions can use different layouts. That was what caused me the most issues on one of the drives and why I failed in my initial recovery, as I was just using the base settings in Data Rescue.
I hope no one else needs this info, but someone may have a similar lapse in judgement and it may save some time if you know you may need to tweak the allocation block layout.

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I picked up a TC and Apple TV last weekend, and have finally got them both working through my Netgear 834G modem/router.
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Hi All, I encountered these sudden Mapping errors after I tried to do Testing in Post Upgrade Sand Box. Here I am trying to to perform Collected Reported Financial Data under Data Collection Method for a particular Company Code 3040. Kindly help me with some quick responses as this is kind of high priority. The errors and the Diagnosis Notes I am unable to follow as I do not where I shall write those Mapping Rules they are referring to. I do not even know if that need to apply any SAP Notes as such. Once again Highly appreciate your quick response and Many Thanks in Advance.
Regards, BIP
Input conversion for field Period Value LC has invalid format Message no. UCT8210 Diagnosis The mapping rule for target field Period Value LC contains a move with a selected Input Conversion indicator. Therefore, the system performs an input conversion prior to creating the target data. However, an error in the input conversion occurred while moving the source key figure to the target key figure Period Value LC. This means that the format used for the input conversion is incompatible with the target data. System Response The system will not perform the move. Procedure Examine the mapping rule for field Period Value LC. Either select the Conversion Exit indicator or deselect the Input Conversion indicator. Execute the method again. -
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Hi Dan,
Could you Kiindly advise me where we need to write the Mapping Rules in Consolidation Monitor? All he time the errors refering to Mapping Rules. The only Tab I seen "Mapping" is in Data Basis But as per my Understanding Iwe do not have much to do there as it is system generated Mapping Tab.
Where we actually go and select/deselct those Input Conversion Indicator/ Conversion exit Indicator.
Highly appreciate your advise.
Thanks and Regards,
BIP

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Update...
I found a website that offers the following:
http://www.computersurgeons.com/p-13442-recovery-kit-435422-001-for-hp-model-number-dv6108nr.aspx
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Yes, if and when the tower can be located and retrieved.   In one communication it was described as a G4, in another, a G5.
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A friend of mine has saved ALL of her precious work on a USB pen, which for no apparent reason has stopped working!
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You can try the free Demo version of Data Rescue. It does not detect Word files; it's looking for anything on the device that matches the criteria you set.
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