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August 5, 2007 at 07:27 AM
demianwulf

EFS encrypted files, Old Hard Drive not bootable am i SOL?

by demianwulf . Updated 18 years, 11 months ago

My old hard drive failed on me and became unbootable. I migrated all my files onto the new hard drive with the old as a slave. I doubly encrypted some sensitive files with Microsoft EFS and Axcrypt (so I’m doubly screwed I think)…I have the passphrases for Axcrypt, but the I did not back up certificates from the old hard drive. I do have access the the drive, but it is not bootable. I have read some other threads along the same line, but most of the time the drive was written over…Is there any hope for me to recover these files?

http://ivoks.blogspot.com/2006/04/cups-and-efs.html

This guy seems to think its possible, but I’m having a hard time making sense of it all.

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