Can I recover to the same drive without risk?

Hi,

I accidentally deleted around the 75% of the contents of a 1TB USB drive (all under one folder tree). I haven't used the drive since.

Am I able to Recuva directly to the same drive or am I at risk of overwriting data I'm trying to recover?

Thanks,

Alby

You are able to recover to the same drive, you are at risk of overwriting data waiting to be recovered, and with that amount of data the risk is just about 100%, which makes it a certainty. You need to borrow or beg another drive and recover to that.

You are able to recover to the same drive, you are at risk of overwriting data waiting to be recovered, and with that amount of data the risk is just about 100%, which makes it a certainty. You need to borrow or beg another drive and recover to that.

Ah, that's a shame. I was hoping it would just change a flag in the MFT or something and reuse the same space.

Thanks