recovering files after partition recovery

I restored a Macrium image on my C: drive but forgot that I'd written a couple of Cubase projects between the making of the image (20th July) and the restore date (25th July) I usually write the Cubase projects to a different disk AND a backup but overlooked these 2 for some reason.

I have tried about 5 different restore programs, Easeus, Diskgator, Undelete. Recuverit and Photrec but none are seeing the files I need. The earliest file dates appear to be 19th July.
Any advice to try and get these files back please?

Cheers,
Mike

You can't. When you restored the image you wrote over those files.

Thanks mate, I suspected as much.
That'l teach me...

It will depend on what type of restore. If navylcdr is correct, macrium makes everything unrecoverable.

SIW2 said:

It will depend on what type of restore. If navylcdr is correct, macrium makes everything unrecoverable.

Macrium used intelligent sector copy, so it may not have overwritten the actual sectors holding the data. But it has certainly restored the original Master File Table (MFT) which file recovery software relies on to find 'deleted' files, Forensic analysis is now the only viable (but expensive) option (and even that may fail to find anything).

It is very likely that old data was overwritten by newly saved data, which leads to partial data unrecoverable. Usually the overwrite is random. Actually, you may use other technical tools to scan it, such as MiniTool power data recovery, which helped me a lot.