EFS: Is it recoverable?



I had some problems with one of my profiles and rights/permissions. I
felt it would be necessary to reinstall windows.

Before reinstalling (havent gone that far yet) I took out the from my
desktop drive and connected it to a drive enclosure in my laptop and I
started deleting. Some files are encrypted. I didnt realized that i
encrypted them awhile ago to prevent accidental deletion (DOH).

I ran the trial of Advanced EFS and it was able to select the files but
they want $100 for the key, only 512 bytes of data was saved, the rest
is with zeros.

How can i tell if i have the certificates installed on the hard drive?
Or is it just better to do a complete format and forget about it?

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