Recovered files with Recuva, shows excellent but can't open/repair

Kaiju

Kaiju

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I accidentally deleted a lot of video files on a separate drive from my OS and they are all shown in excellent condition (green button) in the program Recuva. The file sizes are all their appropriate sizes, yet they simply won't play.

I've tried various video repairing software, opened using various media players and codecs. The files simply look empty. I also recovered a text file and when opening it just had the word NULL written over and over.

Any ideas on how to recover these files so they are viewable?

I don't have a previous restore point.
 
As you can see here, the files I want to recover have no data but the second picture shows data.

Does that mean my data is definitely not recoverable?

Not sure why though, but when I recover the files, the data takes up drive space.

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Thanks KIA but that also showed the deleted files crossed out and unrecoverable.

Any other ideas?
 
Looks like I'm out of luck.

"But on an SSD with TRIM enabled, if you delete a file (and subsequently empty the Recycle Bin / Trash), you’re simply not going to get your data back. As far as I’m aware, even with forensics, the data recovery simply isn’t going to be possible. Unlike mechanical hard drives, which hold data magnetically, all it takes for NAND to assuredly erase the data is that little command, and boom, gone."
 
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