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?