Re: decryption of files and folders

I'm very sorry to tell you that your files are forever lost! This is a horror story that is often heard, you are not the first one to lose files to file encryption, anyone who uses file encryption and who fails to backup the recovery key is asking for trouble! I cringe when I hear the words "File Encryption", many, if not most, don't understand how critically important it is to backup the encryption key. What is even worse is that many of those who lose encrypted files had no real need to have the files encrypted in the first place! In one post that I once read the poster was imploring for a solution to the same problem, saying that all his kid's and family photos would be lost without a solution. A disaster that could have been completely avoided, are the kids that ugly that their photos needed to be encrypted?

John

Krishna wrote:

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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