Re: Recovery of Encrypted files. help!

koby wrote:

ASR stands for Automated System Recovery. It is one of the options in Ntbackup. In addition to the backup data file ASR creates a floppy disk that is needed during the ASR recovery. In my previous post I wrote that an ASR recovery might allow you to view the encrypted files. What I meant to say was it might not. And the only way you can even try that is if you had made an ASR backup. Since you don't know what ASR means this suggests to me you didn't use the ASR wizard in ntbackup.

Sounds like the only thing that is going to be able to recover your files is if you can repair the MBR to make the disk bootable. 


How do I do this?


You must boot into XP from that disk and login to the account where the encryption was applied 


How do I do that?


to either decrypt the files or create a recovery agent and export the certificate and key. The other option would be to clone the disk onto another drive with a working mbr, and see if that will boot. 


What is cloning? How do I do that?


You might want to talk with one of the drive data recovery specialty groups such as www.ontrack.com or www.drivesavers.com. 


Thanks !


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Rock
MS MVP  Windows - Shell/User



Cloning is the process of making an exact copy of the data on the drive. I don't know whether or how one can do it if the mbr is damaged, but some specialty software might work. How you do the possible solutions I suggested? Like I said, contact a group that specializes in drive and data recovery like ontrack or drive savers.

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Rock
MS MVP  Windows - Shell/User

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