Can’t open any files after restore

I restored a hard drive that failed with ontracks easy recovery proffessional software. Everything worked fine except i am unable to open any of the files. The extensions are all ok and the application associations are correct but for ex. a word doc of 248k will just open as a blank page.
if i open word first, then open the document from the program, it does a conversion, and my whole document is ASCII blocks. any of my image files open as the red x in a box. and my music and video files will not play with any player. PLEASE HELP!!!!!