[Bug-ddrescue] Particular use case

[Yomi Ogunwumi]

I need to copy data from a failing HDD.
I've got a desktop (which the drive is from) and a laptop (where I'm trying
to copy the data to.)

I read the manual and noticed that rescuing and specifying a partition (or
a device in /dev) would overwrite the data there, which is not what I want.

I want to know if there's a way I can still rescue the data, but just point
the .img to a directory on the laptop drive without overwriting the data I
already have on the laptop HDD.

Yomi