jony115 0 Posted September 11, 2002 Hello. I recently formatted my harddrive and reinstalled winxp. I had encrypted files on another drive, and now I can't access them. And no, I didn't make any backup or export of the encryption key - the key is now lost forever. Just didn't think about it. Although i'm pretty much sure all is lost I ask anyway as a last resort if anyone knows what I can do in this situation. Those are precious files for me (otherwise I wouldn't have encrypted them...) Please help! Share this post Link to post
BladeRunner 0 Posted September 11, 2002 Wow, what is this, national "Loose your keys" day? http://www.ntcompatible.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=22545 I'm afraid as the posts in the above link will tell you, basically speaking unless you're part of a domain where certain accounts can get your data back or you've got a backup of your keys on floppy disk then you aren't going to get that data back - tis the whole point of file encryption. Share this post Link to post