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,
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Is Recuva "read only" recovery software?
Started by txe1998, Apr 14 2009 07:57 PM
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Posted 14 April 2009 - 08:09 PM
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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Posted 14 April 2009 - 08:33 PM
Augeas, on Apr 14 2009, 08:09 PM, said:
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.
