I work on an IT helpdesk (despite not ahving that much of an in-depth IT knowledge) and was given an SSD from a user's personal laptop to fix. The drive holds the OS and some important documents so he wanted it recovering, and I had an as-yet unused copy of Recuva on my home PC so I offered my help. Thing is, I'm a little out of my depth having actually looked at it, and there's a pack of biscuits on the line so I need a bit of help 
The drive shows in BIOS and always attempts to boot, but fails straight away and attempts auto-recovery, which also fails. Once I force a boot into my actual OS, I can see it in Explorer, but cannot load into it (Explorer /Disk Manager takes upwards of five minutes to even load when the drive is plugged in, and sometimes just hangs). Recuva will show the drive but not scan it.
I can find two 'spare partitions' when scanning that are not registered as part of a drive (below) labelled as System reserve and Local Disk, I was expecting the files to be located on the Local Disk partition going off what the user stated, but the only files Recuva can find are the $BadClus and Winre.wim, plus a few tiny log files, not the documents and images I was expecting.
Is it worth me trying for these biscuits or should I concede?

The drive shows in BIOS and always attempts to boot, but fails straight away and attempts auto-recovery, which also fails. Once I force a boot into my actual OS, I can see it in Explorer, but cannot load into it (Explorer /Disk Manager takes upwards of five minutes to even load when the drive is plugged in, and sometimes just hangs). Recuva will show the drive but not scan it.

I can find two 'spare partitions' when scanning that are not registered as part of a drive (below) labelled as System reserve and Local Disk, I was expecting the files to be located on the Local Disk partition going off what the user stated, but the only files Recuva can find are the $BadClus and Winre.wim, plus a few tiny log files, not the documents and images I was expecting.

Is it worth me trying for these biscuits or should I concede?