7z protected

[Rizwan awan]

I forget my own albums wich were compressed with 7z, I am on now window 10, downloded hashcat bineries . I need a guid , how to start and execute, kindy consider me a novice , never be in cracking before

[Banaanhangwagen]

Find a tool to extract the hash from the 7z-file. Save it to a txt file.
Try to crack it with Hashcat with -m 11600.
Read https://hashcat.net/wiki/ and lookup some Youtube-videos to improve your mastery. Good luck!

[drsnooker]

May I also suggest making a practice archive first with a known password, so you can see if your methodology is sound before proceeding with the real deal....

[Rizwan awan]

Still trying to understand the method and steps, files compressed by myself, so if any password apear it may help to recall my memoray

[Rizwan awan]

slight progress , extract the hashes, now trying to find pass, but fail with hascat and get this

C:\hashcat-7.1.2>hashcat -m 11600 myhash
hashcat (v7.1.2) starting

This hash-mode is known to emit multiple valid candidates for the same hash.
Use --keep-guessing to continue attack after finding the first crack.

clGetDeviceInfo(): CL_INVALID_VALUE

No devices found/left.

[Rizwan awan]

If there some expert, kindly guide about that issue, what kind of error is that, and what am I doing wrong ?

[zamgold]

Install / reinstall correct GPU and CUDA drivers