Franssales Posted February 9, 2009 Share Posted February 9, 2009 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmillerusaf Posted February 9, 2009 Share Posted February 9, 2009 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. 2. Recuva will prompt you for a location to place the recovered files. We strongly recommend you select another drive. This will help with the recovery process and avoid problems where Recuva can end up overwriting the file it's trying to recover. Note: If you want to restore files in their original folder structure, select the Recovery options first. Taken from Piriform Docs Hope this helps, Keith There's always an exception to the rule. I'm that exception. Desktop ----- AMD Athlon 3700+ (2.64Ghz), 2GB DDR 400, ASUS A8N-SLI Premium, 500GB HD, Windows XP Pro SP3, Avira Antivir Personal At work ----- Intel C2D T1700 (1.6Ghz), 2GB DDR2 667, Dell OUY141, 80GB HD, Windows XP Pro SP2, Symantec 10 Laptop ----- Intel C2D P8400 (2.4 Ghz), 4GB DDR3 1066, Mainboard, 160GB HD, Dualboot: Windows 7/openSUSE 11.1, Avira Antivir Personal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Franssales Posted February 9, 2009 Author Share Posted February 9, 2009 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmillerusaf Posted February 9, 2009 Share Posted February 9, 2009 You're very welcome There's always an exception to the rule. I'm that exception. Desktop ----- AMD Athlon 3700+ (2.64Ghz), 2GB DDR 400, ASUS A8N-SLI Premium, 500GB HD, Windows XP Pro SP3, Avira Antivir Personal At work ----- Intel C2D T1700 (1.6Ghz), 2GB DDR2 667, Dell OUY141, 80GB HD, Windows XP Pro SP2, Symantec 10 Laptop ----- Intel C2D P8400 (2.4 Ghz), 4GB DDR3 1066, Mainboard, 160GB HD, Dualboot: Windows 7/openSUSE 11.1, Avira Antivir Personal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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