encryption fix-recovery agent

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I have a secondary hard drive- for all my audio and vid files; It was encrypted and hidden; Then I had the BSOD and had to reform my primary drive; reinstall XP, etc. Now it will not allow me to open files; I can view contents of the drive but, then "acces denied" pops up!! I have tried "help" and have tried to enable "recovery agent"; It's asking for a .cer file and a public/private key! I am the administrator and owner of this network, I realize that encryption is a method that protects and prevents others from accesing "sensitive" folders, but, how do I recover my own data?
 
If you didn't back up the cert keys the only thing you can do is take the
drive to a service that retrieves files from dead hard drives and see if
they can do it. Those keys are the only way to unlock those files using
Windows XP.

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spccdr said:
I have a secondary hard drive- for all my audio and vid files; It was
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encrypted and hidden; Then I had the BSOD and had to reform my primary
drive; reinstall XP, etc. Now it will not allow me to open files; I can view
contents of the drive but, then "acces denied" pops up!! I have tried "help"
and have tried to enable "recovery agent"; It's asking for a .cer file and a
public/private key! I am the administrator and owner of this network, I
realize that encryption is a method that protects and prevents others from
accesing "sensitive" folders, but, how do I recover my own data?
 
I have a secondary hard drive- for all my audio and vid files; It was
encrypted and hidden; Then I had the BSOD and had to reform my primary
drive; reinstall XP, etc. Now it will not allow me to open files; I
can view contents of the drive but, then "acces denied" pops up!! I
have tried "help" and have tried to enable "recovery agent"; It's
asking for a .cer file and a public/private key! I am the
administrator and owner of this network, I realize that encryption is
a method that protects and prevents others from accesing "sensitive"
folders, but, how do I recover my own data?
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When you re-formatted the primary drive. You deleted the SID and
encryption certificate for your account. So, Now Windows has no way to
know that it is "Your own data". I have no sympathy for you people that
would encrypt files without taking the time to make you sure you
understand how encryption works and how to recover your data.

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David

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