I was using Winodws XP with the admin rights. And have used the NTFS encryption to encrypt files on local HDD as well as external.
Now that the system is not booting up – I have replace the HDD form the system and connect the olh HDD though USB port.
The drive is browsable. And I believe atleast my user account will be saved.
My base concern is to recover the encryption key form the systemand install it on the new OS loaded.
Regarding this –
1) The error while booting is ” system32/ config/system file missing or corrupted” I have been advised to replace the same files with theones in the i386 folder. Will this effect my user account or my password. OR shoulf I refrain form trying this.
2) If there is a way to take image of the partition so that we can try to experiment on the HDD and in case of any problem we can restore back.
3) If there is a way to access my previous user account profile and load it onto my new system – will it solve the problem.
4) If the file is located at some particular system folder – is there any way to just copy and paste those files
5) The MS site talks about Recovery agent – can we find out if there is any recovery agent created for my profile and then again – where to look for the keys.
6) Where to look for the system information – computer name, adminstrator , user name, display name – so that I can reload windws onto another HDD with same settings.
