Apologies if this is in the wrong forum/place but was hoping that I’d added this to the right place…
I am trying to recover a file from an old windows computer running XP. Long story short, it can’t connect to the internet, so I have been trying to download windows Recuva onto my Mac and then move it onto a flash drive to instalL on the windows computer. Every time I do that, there is an error during installation, so it doesn’t work.
is there a way around this please?
Try downloading the installer from here: https://www.ccleaner.com/recuva/builds
Onto the Mac and then onto the flash drive and then onto the windows computer?
If you only have a Mac available then yes.
I'm not entirely sure but it may be that the usual download page doesn't play well with Mac because Recuva is only available for Windows.
Downloading it directly from the builds page should bypass any such issue.
Just to add that download will install on a Windows machine that is not connected to the web, I've just done it to check.
Ok great, I appreciate the swift help. I’ll give this and go and see what happens. Perhaps something happens in the web to Mac to windows transfer. In which case, I’ll get a friend with a windows computer to download it instead.
Just for information in case it helps anyone.
I don't have a Mac but I've had a play and downloaded the Recuva installer from the builds page onto my Android phone.
I then transferred it from the phone to this laptop.
I double clicked the transferred installer and Recuva installed sucessfully on the laptop.
So that shows that it can be downloaded to a different OS, and then moved to a Windows machine to install there.