Re: Encrypted files recovery- drive crash

From: TC (Tc_at_t.com)
Date: 07/20/03 

Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 14:59:11 -0700

steve as I wrote earlier that windows can not access that
drive so running chkdsk is out of question. I was able to
access the drive with a third party software and did the
data recovery and basically got all the files. As these
files were encrypted i was still able to get them but when
i open in it says they are corrputed.
these are .pdf files and used EFS to encypt them.
I also had a word document that was encrypted too but when
i open the .doc files it displays bunch of ASCII
characters.
what do you think.Is there a way I can get these back.
After running a few tests on the drive and checkig each
sector my drive has around 12 bad sectors around the
begining of the drive. Althoug MBR and Boot sector are
good. starts at sector 114 and goes on.

>-----Original Message-----
> When you try to access those files it just says
they are corrupt and
>proceeds no further?? If that is the case then
unfortuneatly you may be out
>of luck because the issue would seem to be that the
operating system can not
>read the files because they are corrupt, not because of
being encrypted or
>permission access. Try running checkdisk on that drive if
you have not done
>so. Possibly using the cipher utiltiy to decrypt might be
worth a try. --
>Steve
>
>
>"TC" <tc@t.com> wrote in message
>news:019001c34de1$8f332560$a001280a@phx.gbl...
>> Hi,
>>
>> My had drive crashed, I was still able to recover 100%
>> data from it. windows was unable to access the drive at
>> all.
>>
>> I had a few files that were encrypted, from the crashed
>> drive I copied these encrypted files to another drive in
>> the same PC. problem is I cannot access these files even
>> though i am logged in with the recovery agents account.
>>
>> so just to clear this
>>
>> 1) encrypted files were moved from bad drive to another
>> drive in the same computer ( NTFS ).
>> 2)did not use windows backup to backup these files, I
was
>> able to recover them with third party software.
>> 3)I log in with the recovery agents account and try to
>> access these files it says files are corroupt.
>>
>> now is there a way I can get to these files using my
>> recovery agents private key as I had encrypted them with
>> the same acount.
>>
>> all comments will be appreciated.
>>
>> TC
>
>
>.
>

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