EFS encrypted file recovery (yet again)

From: Dennis Adams (makisupa_at_cox.net)
Date: 01/31/04 

Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 14:01:08 -0800

I'll start buy noting I have learned my lesson, export your public keys. and make an ERD disk.
Well here's my situation I'm running Windows 2k sp4. I ran into a problem did some registry edits and managed to foobar my registry software hive. So I decided to format the C: drive and re-install windows 2k.

Well before I formatted the drive I was able to copy all the data from the
"C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Microsoft\" directory

so I have a copy of he files used for private/public keys. So far from what I read there is no way to import these files unless they were exported via secpol.msc

is there anyway to import my old keys that I have on disk ??
that are in the Crypto / Protect / SystemCertificates directories ??

I've read that there is a program called reccerts.exe that might allow me to recover these keys

thanks in advance
Dennis

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