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Windows XP Pro encrypted file rescue

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by sean

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I ran the defrag utility on my NTFS partition on my Windows XP Professional machine. It eventually crashed and went into a memory dump. When I rebooted it attempted to start windows and then dumped again with the message boot_volume_unmountable atthe top. I have already installed Windows on a new hard drive and have set the old one up as a slave to it, is there any way for me to rescue my encrypted files? Any help would be deeply appreciated.

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by sean

Thanks but this only works if you have afunctional system that is still seeing the files, the built in defrag utility did so much damage that I am unable to access the drive even as a slave. Ontrack's recovery software managed to save mostof what was unencrypted but is entirely unable to find any of the encrypted stuff. My entire My Documents folder is missing.

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