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What to do when Stellar Data Recovery Professional gives message "The destination you have chosen is on the same source drive as source"?

 Modified on: January 20, 2020 |    12424 views

There might arise 2 cases when the scan is finished and you are about to save recovered files back to your computer.

Case 1: "Source and destination volume are same"

This message will prompt when the data recovered from a volume is being saved to the same volume. E.g: HDD was scanned for deleted files & the same HDD is being selectd as a location to save the recovered files. Hence, the message appeared.

To overcome this message, always choose a different volume to save the recovered files. 

Case 2: "The destination you have chosen is on the same source drive as source"

This message only warns that the volume scanned for deleted files and another volume chosen to save recovered files lies on the same hard drive. You can simply click the "Proceed Anyway" button to ignore this message. 

Important Tip: Always ensure an external device, which is larger than the source media to save your recovered data. In case you don't have any external media then choose a different volume to save recovered files.

 

8 User Comments

my drive is formatted by the microsoft media creation tool, i bought the stellar data recovery, after scanning, i tried to recover files, but it say no file is selected, but i checkmarked all the files

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JAY

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Stellar Data Recovery

Hi,

Thank you for contacting Stellar Data Recovery.

We would like to inform you that we have sent an email to your email address regarding for the same.


Regards

Stellar Data Recovery

I'am trying to save a recovered .docx item from $Recycle.Bin to Documents and I get the message 'Source and destination volume are same'. Could you give me an exemple of a Destination that is not the same (as the Source).

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Adelin REMY

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Kartik

Hi Adelin,

As per your comments, we believe that you are recovering data from C partition of your internal drive.

Kindly try to save recovered in other partition of your drive or in external drive.

For more assistance, please submit ticket to our experts using below link:

https://www.stellarinfo.com/support/

Regards,

Stellar Data Recovery

what is a volume? how do you select a different volume?

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Jabari

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Abdul Majid

Dear Jabari,

A volume is a logical drive from your physical hard drive.

Once you click on Recover button than you may select a different volume or logical drive, i.e. D: drive.

Good afternoon, when restoring, it tells me that the origin is the same as the destination, even selecting an external disk or a second internal disk of my PC, please, what can I do?

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agblanco

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Abdul Majid

Dear Agblanco,

We regret the inconvenience caused to you.

Please share the screenshot of disk management after selecting the source and destination drive.

Kindly also share the screenshot of Stellar software window where you are getting a message of source and destination same.

Our team has also sent you an email, please reply to us with the details and we will provide you the solution.

 

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