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problem with encrypted files

#1 User is offline   suveduka 

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Posted 03 September 2007 - 08:27 PM

Dear friends,
Can anyone help me with this issue? I am having OS of windows XP sp2 professional. I encrypted some files while my administrator name is sundaramurthy. Then one day I formatted the C drive and installed the same OS but with administrator name as sundaramoorthy.Now I cannot retrieve that encrypted files. It shows user detail as sundaramurthy. It does not get encrypt even I have the administrator privileges. Please suggest me a way.
S.Sundaramoorthy
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#2 User is offline   Darksat 

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Posted 04 September 2007 - 11:25 AM

What were you using to encrypt the files?
The Darksat Forum - Linux Security and IT
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#3 User is offline   Wilhelmus 

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Posted 04 September 2007 - 01:38 PM

If you did not backup your EFS key before you formatted, sadly your files are gone.

Try if AEFSDR (Advanced EFS Data Recovery) can recover them.

And for future:
How to back up the recovery agent Encrypting File System (EFS).

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#4 User is offline   suveduka 

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Posted 06 September 2007 - 08:33 PM

I encrypted with the windows OS XP itself
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#5 User is offline   Shen China 

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Posted 17 September 2007 - 10:06 AM

Wilhelmus
old hand
is right
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