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#1 OFFLINE   vganeshrao

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Posted 23 November 2008 - 07:03 AM

Hi,

I am trying to recover the deleted files from the 8GB hard disk.
During the scanning process, when it completes 89% (almost it takes 1 hour)
automatically it stops and error message displayed on the status bar
as "The semaphore timeout period has expired".

It does not display any files after this.

I am not able to proceed further.

Please suggest me how to overcome this error to recover the files?
Is there any additional configuration required? I configured for Deep Scanning Option

Regards,
VGR

#2 OFFLINE   Augeas

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Posted 23 November 2008 - 09:58 AM

If you Google semaphore timeout period you will get around 17,000 hits. A quick glance at a few shows that it appears to be kind of a generic error message, and is not specific to Recuva. Many of the hits refer to networking problems, which I don't think apply in your case, or very large files, which might apply.

Have a look at this thread http://forums.microsoft.com/technet/showpo...3&siteid=17 for a start.