How to open Access from the old drive?

I have a client that had an employee intentionally permanently delete their work off a laptop.
This employee also uninstalled the programs associated with some of the data. Using data recovery software I was able to recover everything that had been deleted that had not been over-written.
I was able to recover some files that had been partially overwritten and figured that more than likely this would corrupt data files so they would not open.
So far I have been able to open most of the Excel files and Word documents. I have not however been able to open any of the Access Databases. I have tried opening the Databases with Access 2007 and with OpenOffice in hopes that I could access the data and possibly resave it.
I still have the old drive that I can extract data from and have specifically searched the deleted data for these Access Databases and made sure that I was getting one that was 100% intact. I was still unable to open these databases to view. I receive an error message that the database is in an unrecognized format in both Microsoft Access and OpenOffice. I really need to be able to access some of this data if not all of it, any help would be appreciated.

Hi There

I had a similar problem with old DBs

It is mainly down to the version of access which they were created/saved.

I had to install an older version of access and save the files as new format to be able to open them in a newer access version.
I know you should be able to open the files and convert or save as, but it did not work for me either...

Try installing a 2010 version

Hope this helps