Lost data using EFS

From: Gavin Spagnolo (gav135@hotmail.com)
Date: 07/08/02 

From: "Gavin Spagnolo" <gav135@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:34:05 -0700

I have a couple folders encrypted with the EFS on my
secondary hard drive. Yesterday I tried to install Linux
on a partition of my primary drive but LILO stuffed my
boot sector and I was forced to format the drive and
reinstall WinXP. I now have most of my system running
again but I cannot access the encrypted files and I do
not have a certificate to become a Data Recovery Agent,
nor do I have any backups of my old data. Is there any
way I can recover this data?

Gavin.

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