Re: Unable to access encrypted files after reinstallation

From: Durand (not@avalid.address)
Date: 02/06/03 

From: "Durand" <not@avalid.address>
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 02:26:51 -0500

Try the recovery console again and this time try bootcfg /rebuild and see if
that does the trick to allowing you to get back into windows xp. 

-- 
Durand
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"tslugmo" <cyber_reaper@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:096d01c2cc96$7f6ebe40$8af82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA03...
Oh man, so close!  I cannot modify any values using set,
as it is disabled by default, and in order to enable it I
must use the Security Analysis and Configuration Snap In,
which I believe I cannot access, right?
Thanks, we're almost there!
-tslugmo
>-----Original Message-----
>To be able to access other folders from the repair
console, you need to change
>the environment variables for the recovery console to
access any folders. Just
>type set and then enter and you'll see all the variables
as being set to false.
>Change them all to true and you should be able to access
the folders.
>
>Durand
>
>"tslugmo" <cyber_reaper@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:04b201c2c946$0efa65e0$8ef82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA04...
>The original installation is still on the partition, I'm
>just unable to boot into it.  Is there someway to modify
>the ntldr file or something to let me boot into it?
>Using the repair console I can only access the D:\Windows
>directory, nothing else, not even unencrypted folders.
>
>Thanks,
>tslugmo
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>The only way to get to the files is:
>>a. if you exported your private key
>>b. can still boot into the original Xp installation. Do
>you have a
>>backup of this installation?
>>
>>In all other cases you encrypted files are lost.
>>
>>Andrej
>>
>>On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 01:08:05 -0800, "tslugmo"
>><cyber_reaper@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>So here's the deal, I had a dual-boot system, Win 98
>and
>>>XP, then I migrated to a new computer and reinstalled
>the
>>>XP partition, forgetting that I needed to do the 98
>>>partition first for the boot records to work.  Then
>>>today, again not remembering this, I re-installed the
>98
>>>partition, effectively disabling both OS's.  So my only
>>>option was to install XP over the backed up 98
>partition
>>>in order to try to access the non-backed up XP
>partition
>>>using NTFS.  However, the most important stuff was
>>>encrypted on my previous XP partition.  And now, even
>>>though I know the username and password, I can't access
>>>the encrypted files.  What are my options for data
>>>recovery in this case, seeing as how there are
>obviously
>>>no DRA's specified on my new partition from before the
>>>formatting occured?  Please tell me there's some way
>for
>>>me to access this data if I know the username and
>>>password!
>>>
>>>TIA,
>>>tslugmo
>>
>>.
>>
>
>
>.
>

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