Recovering from Old Shadow Copy Cache System Files

Hello,
We have a client who had data corruption on a large scale (virus) and did not have an active backup. Shadow Copy was enabled, but failed when attempting to restore using built-in Shadow Copy recovery. Folder and File level recovery failed.
We were able to use a tool called Z-VSSCopy to restore file-by-file, but as that was underway (days) the shadow copy service continued to run and eventually ran out of space, overwriting the shadow copies we were restoring from.
I know, I should have modified the schedule or at least increased the available size for shadow copies, but that is a lesson learned too late.
In viewing the shadow copy data in the \System File Information folder, I saw that the copies were in fact deleted, but I noticed two files that were from a month ago.
Z-VSSCopy and built-in are not recognizing them (or vssadmin) but I can see the data is still there. One is 300+ MB and the other 100+ MB.
Is there a way I can force recovery using data contained in these files, or are they lost?
I'm currently running a Data Recovery program in hopes I can recovery anything, but since there has been significant writing on this disk since the incidence, I have little hope.
Any help is GREATLY appreciated. Thanks.

Hi,
Generally if a previous version is not recognized by system, we may not able to recover the data inside.
If you can still see some VSS files, please test if they could be recognized by command line:
vss list shadows
If one of them could be recognized, it will be listed like this:
vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2001-2013 Microsoft Corp.
Contents of shadow copy set ID: {3020fef8-e11b-4b45-b26f-8fec24a2bd27}
Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 2013/10/28 21:09:33
Shadow Copy ID: {b340c998-6ae5-459a-8e15-7a81188242c7}
Original Volume: (G:)\\?\Volume{d35a24f1-3f7a-11e3-be86-f01faf2a379a}\
Shadow Copy Volume: \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy3
Originating Machine: LAP-SHAN.fareast.corp.microsoft.com
Service Machine: LAP-SHAN.fareast.corp.microsoft.com
Provider: 'Microsoft Software Shadow Copy provider 1.0'
Type: DataVolumeRollback
Attributes: Persistent, No auto release, No writers, Differential
Please check the timestamp to make sure it is the snapshot you are looking for.
If it is listed, try to create a symbolic link:
mklink /d c:\shadow123 \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy3\
*Note:add a back-slash in the end of this command line.
If this will work, you can access c:\shadow123 to get the files.
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