Re: decryption of files and folders

You should have created a 'password reset disk' before the format. When you encrypted the data you were cautioned to save those certificates to a safe place.
HOW TO Back Up Your Encrypting File System Private Key (Q241201): http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q241/2/01.asp?LN=EN-US&SD=gn&FR=0&qry=&rnk=14&src=DHCS_MSPSS_gn_SRCH&SPR=WINXP
223316 - Best Practices for Encrypting File System: http://support.microsoft.com/?id=223316
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"Krishna" <Krishna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:D38854EC-AC42-4D49-86D1-257773EE3720@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi,
My HDD partition is C: and D:. I have my data files in D:\. in order to
protect my data i had applied encrytion to all the folders and files in this
drive. recently my C: was formatted and Win XP was reinstalled...my D:\ was
not formatted...

Now i'm not able to open, view or worse even copy these files in D:\ i tried
removing the encryption by it displays a error message that "error in
applying attributes"

Can any one please let me know on how to decrypt the files and folders in
D:\ please help as i have valuable data in my D:|


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