Recovered documents won't open in Word 2007

I've recovered some .doc and .docx files with Recuva but they won't open in Microsoft Word 2007.

The error message I get is:

The file <file> cannot be opened because there are problems with the contents.

Details: The file is corrupt and can't be opened.

Any help would be great because I need this file for an assignment.

Thanks!

To improve performance the HDD usually starts writing to the first available spaces at the beginning of the disk.

If your deleted files were located there they were soon overwritten, thus cannot be retrieved intact.