[Recovery to same or to another hard disk?]

I would agree to the recommendation of recovering your data to another hard drive, flash drive, or other media. This prevents you from possibly overwriting the data that you want to recover if something goes wrong.

Hope this helps,

 

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

[Recovery to same or to another hard disk?]

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?

[Do revovered files need extra space from hard disk?]

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?