Cannot access recovery partition.

Before I confuse anyone, I'm an absolute bird-brain when it comes to computer troubleshooting.

A few days ago, on my smartphone I ended up deleting several photos on accident and tried Recuva only to find that the E Drive (the recovery partition I'm guessing?) is not ready. The recovery menu displayed the pictures I wanted, but showed a blank preview which brought to my mind that the partition must've been the cause. I went around on the Internet trying to find a simple and brief forum post about accessing the recovery partition on Recuva only to find posts that are off-topic from my situation.

All I want is a straight answer so I can get these photos back.

Once again my bad for my lack of knowledge with computers. (I'm quite young so...)