Re: Format and Reinstall

From: Star Fleet Admiral Q (Star_Fleet_Admiral_Q(NO-SPAM)_at_(SPAM-NOT)hotmail.com)
Date: 05/20/05 

Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 13:45:09 -0400

Do you have a backup copy of the C: drive before you formatted? If yes, it
may be possible to decrypt the files, based on a KB article on the MS site. 

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"kinghq" <kinghq@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:08C262F1-22C3-47A3-A0BA-1E58CB59CEE2@microsoft.com...
>I have an HD partitioned into 2 drivers, C and D.  Because I am on a 
>wireless
> network at school, I encrypt all my files I don't others to see.  Two 
> nights
> ago I was doing an automated software upgrade that failed.  To make a long
> story short, I had reformat the C drive and reinstall windows.  Now I 
> can't
> access the encrypted files.  Is there anything I can do access them?
>
> The computer name is the same.  The account name was different, but I was
> able to boot into safe mode under the default administrator account and
> change the name back to the original, but this didn't work.  Please help 
> ;(
> I have a back up of the files, but there are a couple files that I had not
> yet backed up that I need.

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