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June 13, 2007 at 01:22 PM
rmjohn

Recovering the Decrypted file

by rmjohn . Updated 19 years, 1 month ago

Hi I have read quite a few threads about this kind of problems. Couldnt find a solid solution for the question I am looking for.

I had an encrypted word file on my laptop and had kept a back up of the same in an external HDD. But I never knew anything about the certificates and stuff…. Recently I formated my C drive and reinstalled the OS (XP Pro). However now I am not able to open the file either from my computer’s D Drive (partition) or from the external HDD. I cant copy it also from either source to anywhere. It gives me an access denied error. It had some confidential information in it and I never knew that I had to save the certificates.

Do you guys think if I have any hope of getting my file back? I tried Advanced EFS Data Recovery v3.0 to recover the encrypted file. But it couldn’t do the job either.

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