About to recover data from a formatted drive, can I recover it to the same drive?

Bruhmis

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The application I'm using warns not to recover the data to the drive it was lost from. I'm assuming the reason is because it'll overwrite some of the lost data before it can be recovered.

so, is there no way for me to do this safely? I'm recovering 800 GB of data and the drive is 1.5 TB.