Recover overwritten word file

Hi guys,

I have just formatted and re-installed windows on my computer without backing up my wife's CV which was on the desktop..

I have ran Recuva but the files it found have been overwritten. There are two versions that i can recover one is red, has 22 clusters overwritten (if that helps) the other is orange with only 21 clusters overwritten. One opens in word, but office asks for a file conversion and non of the options gives me any sensible text. The other file does not open at all as there is "problem with the content or parts missing".

I have tried to open both files in notepad as both .rtf and .txt files.

Any chance of getting this file back?

Would there be a temp file I can search for`?

Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks,

Ke