HELP!: Decrypting Files After Partial System Crash

From: Peter Clark (clark@hushmail.com)
Date: 04/03/03 

From: "Peter Clark" <clark@hushmail.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 15:40:33 -0800

http://www.beginningtoseethelight.org/efsrecovery/

>-----Original Message-----
>OK hot shots here's a real bear for you guys to wrap
yourselves
>around.
>
>This is the deal: recently my WIN2K hard drive suffered a
massive
>crash. Scan of the disk revealed permanent errors on the
drive and
>about 20-30 percent of the files were lost for good.
However I was
>able to salvage the remaining 80-70 percent (including
most of the
>Doc's & Settings, Prog Files, WINNT, System32\CONFIG, etc.
>directories) and back them up accordingly to a stable drive.
>
>However a number of my data files were encrypted with EFS
and while I
>was able to restore them to my new partition, they remained
>encrypted. My questions are thus:
>
>(1) Is there any way to use the old files to a create a
PKS file?
>(2) Where and what are the files and directories that
WIN2K uses for
>user EFS?
>(3) My last resort is to retroactively create a 'ghost'
image of my
>old WIN2K system and on the good drive. This very time
consuming and
>when I tried it, it didn't work. Specifically the system
booted and
>proceeded all the way to the login is screen but I was
unable to login
>as all of my input devices where not activated. So the
question is, if
>this procedure is the only recourse, what is the best way
to implement
>this so I can actually login on decrypt my old files?
>
>T I A !!!!!!!!!!!
>.
>

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