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Is Recuva "read only" recovery software?


txe1998

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Hi folks, as topic title says: is Recuva "read-only" software? In that it will not overwrite anything on the disk/card that you are trying to recover from?

 

I had a look through the documentation for this and could not find it, maybe this could be included for reference in an update to those documents?

 

Thanks in advance,

 

TXE

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During installation it will overwrite data, unless you install it on a drive you are not trying to recover from. When recovering you should also recover to a separate drive to avoid overwriting data. Apart from that I think Recuva is pretty harmless.

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During installation it will overwrite data, unless you install it on a drive you are not trying to recover from. When recovering you should also recover to a separate drive to avoid overwriting data. Apart from that I think Recuva is pretty harmless.

 

 

That's fine, I just needed to be sure.

 

The data is on an external HD, so the installation [well, it's already installed] will not harm the data I am trying to recover.

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