![]() That’s all for now, but stay tuned – I have some interesting ideas for upcoming posts. To save files in your actual Desktop or Documents folders, navigate to /cygdrive/c/Users/. ![]() System Rescue CD: SystemRescueCd is a Linux system rescue disk. This will be fixed in the next version of DDRescue-GUI. Ddrescue is GNU license holder software that you can use for free of cost for recovering. Note 2: If you save to the home folder within DDRescue-GUI, the files will end up in Program Files\DDRescue-GUI\home instead of on your actual Desktop, or Documents folder and so on. For the record, I have had no trouble using this bundle with Avira Antivirus. ![]() This is because Cygwin, which this bundle takes advantage of, is known to confuse some antivirus programs. Note: You may need to add an exception for DDRescue-GUI’s install folder in your antivirus software. You can download it from or this website now, and an updated user guide is coming very soon to fully cover Windows users. This bundle supports 64-bit versions of Windows starting from Windows 8.1. It's taken a while to get it stable and fully working, but it's finally ready. I’m still working to get DDRescue-GUI into the official Cygwin repositories, but for your average users it’s far better to use the bundle I’ve made instead. Written for DDRescue-GUI by Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty on I have just released a Windows bundle of DDRescue-GUI for easy installation and removal. With the manual method you will end up running slightly different and newer versions of dependencies.The bundle contains all dependencies, so what you download is exactly the same as what I’ve tested.Much less disk space required (500MB instead of 1+ GB, though I’m working to further reduce this).Now everything is fully automated, and installation should only take a few minutes.Previously the whole process could take up to an hour or more, and involved following complex command-line instructions precisely.Much smaller download size (150MB instead of around 1 GB).It’s a far more convenient way of installing DDRescue-GUI on Windows, and has these advantages over the old method of manually installing Cygwin and dependencies: This is targeting end users who can't read a man page. It’s taken a while, but the DDRescue-GUI Windows bundle is now available. If you're a tech you should be comfortable enough with a terminal to just use ddrescue without a GUI.
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