I just had my hard drive recovered from broken time capsule.  Where are my files?

They retrieved the 1 TB harddrive for me but now that I have put it into an enclosure, I cannot seem to find any of the files.
Are they gone forever??

Ok, you have lost the data partition which is really bad.. I think you might need a data recovery centre.. if I take a hard disk from a TC I can see the three partitions.
This popped up in another post. I wonder if the issue is Lion.
If you have a computer with SL can you try that.
When I have had issues with some TC hard disk, I have found files via windows PC.. download the free HFS+ tools for explorer. They do not allow you to copy to the TC.. but that is fine, see if you can read the files on the disk.
I know it is too late.. but we advise people never to use the TC as a storage device.. this is why.

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