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Strange Behavior of Portable App (PhotoRec)

Discussion in 'Other PC Software' started by chrisw, 2011/07/13.

  1. 2011/07/13
    chrisw

    chrisw Inactive Thread Starter

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    My brother is try to recover some deleted video with PhotoRec 6.12. Note: PhotoRec is a downloadable portable app, it does not install but just runs from the desktop. When he opens it, he gets "failed to start because cygwin1.dll not found" (but cygwin1.dll is part of the download!). When I open (the very same D/L, he sent it to me), it opens just fine. Very strange. He does use Vista and I use Win7/64, but the D/L is supposed to work on both. Any idea what might be going on?

    More Info: We used the 32bit version of PhotoRec since that's what his Vista is. It just seems strange that for a self-contained app that doesn't install, something like this happens. What would prevent PhotoRec from at least opening on both machines? The interaction with the underlying OS must be minimal.
     
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    Steve R Jones

    Steve R Jones SuperGeek Staff

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    Hopefully he stopped using the drive with the files he'd like to recover. Everything he does including temp internet file could be writting over the deleted files.

    This app is popular and powerful:
    But as mentioned above - don't install it on the same drive...
     
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    chrisw

    chrisw Inactive Thread Starter

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    Steve....we tried Recuva first, totally worthless, can't handle video on a memory card? But thnx
     
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    TonyT

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    You can download and use Testdisk and Photorec as an ISO and use it to create a live CD. Then boot the computer using that CD and recover the files.

    TestDisk Livecd
     
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    chrisw

    chrisw Inactive Thread Starter

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    Tony, Steve...he finally got PhotoRec to open (he hadn't extracted all the zipped content nor Run as Admin). I thought he was more savvy than that. Now he can't find the memory card that's plugged into his card reader (which contains the deleted files) with the now-open PhotoRec. Life ain't easy, is it?
     
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