Unless you imaged your computer "after" you set up your encryption (or
exported your certificates and keys to a safe place for reuse), I am afraid
that your files are inaccessible.
It's the same as if you "borrowed" a program and installed it on your
computer today. You create many files using said program. Now your friend
leaves and takes his disk with him (moves to a foreign country). Tomorrow
you go back to an image you made three weeks ago. How are you going to
access those files you created yesterday?
It's called - planning!
--
Regards,
Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
"jackvnz" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:162FB081-8C8B-4F23-9D4E-(E-Mail Removed)...
> My computer runs Windows XP SP2. It has one admisnistrator account, which
> will be called admin in this question. After completing all necessary
> installations and account customizations, I backed the entire C: drive up
> with Norton Ghost 2003.
> While using the computer, I encrypted several important files on my
> removable drives with the admin account. Recently, I had to restore the
> entire C: drive from the Ghost image following a computer crash. After the
> restoration, I have been unable to access nor decrypt the files encrypted
> before the crash, despite the fact that I was using the exact same admin
> account that has been Ghosted along with system files on the C: drive.
> What
> can I do to regain access to these files?
|
Similar Threads
