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Hi
When I try and run hashcat, it says starting and then immediately returns to the command prompt.
D:\Tools\HashCat>hashcat -m 13711 -a 3 hash.tc testmask.hcmask
hashcat (v6.2.6) starting
D:\Tools\HashCat>
Not sure what to do. Please help.
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please show output of hashcat -I
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Hi
Same thing happens. Hashcat starts then immediately stops. I am using a freshly downloaded copy of hashcat.
D:\Tools\HashCat>hashcat -I
hashcat (v6.2.6) starting in backend information mode
D:\Tools\HashCat>
Thanks
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03-20-2025, 08:28 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-20-2025, 08:29 PM by Snoopy.)
please try latest beta from
https://hashcat.net/beta/
what kind of pc do you have? what kind of gpu? did you installed the basic requirements?
https://hashcat.net/hashcat/
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Hi
D:\Tools\HashCat>nvidia-smi
Fri Mar 21 19:44:18 2025
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 572.70 Driver Version: 572.70 CUDA Version: 12.8 |
|-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Driver-Model | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap | Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
| 0 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 WDDM | 00000000:01:00.0 On | N/A |
| 34% 43C P0 N/A / 115W | 776MiB / 8188MiB | 1% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
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did you tried the last beta? or when using linux just compile latest git-version, and then try hashcat -I
if there is still no output, sry, no idea
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try this
open cmd
use cd command to enter directory where hashcat exe is
then, ur command should start with .\hashcat.exe
ex.
.\hashcat.exe -D 2 -m 1400 hashes/hash3.txt dict/rockyou.txt
hashes and dict folders i created.
