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It did, I got the full answer which I believe is useful for many others, too. Thanks a lot!

I will soon start to recover a hard disk, which has been full of photos, music and archives. Recuva seems to be good software for it. What I didnt get from documentation is this: is it safe to recover a hard disk onto itself? I have been recommended to restore the data to another hard drive to avoid data loss. Does Recuva have this option? I have also told to make a sector-level copy of the disk with linux dd command before doing anything else, so that if something goes wrong I can start the recovery process from the scratch. Comments, suggestions?

Starting a very big recovering job. Two disk, which have been almost full of data must be recovered. So my question is: will recovered files be recovered to the space which they take right now, unrecovered? Or must I try to recover them to another disk, to avoid the possibility that the recovered files are written over the files that has not been recovered yet?