I had encrypted data in one of my NTFS drives... i stored the encryption key
or backup to that in the same folder by mistake.. so now my key is also
encrypted...
i suddenly formated other partion which contained vistas...
now i am not able to use my files which are encrypted... the key which is
also encrypted is useless to recover the data.... please help......!!

abhishek wrote:
> I had encrypted data in one of my NTFS drives... i stored the encryption key
> or backup to that in the same folder by mistake.. so now my key is also
> encrypted...
> i suddenly formated other partion which contained vistas...
> now i am not able to use my files which are encrypted... the key which is
> also encrypted is useless to recover the data.... please help......!!

Unless you backed up the key off that drive or backed up the data
unencrypted somewhere, the probability of getting your data back is very
slim. You can contact Elcomsoft to see if their program can help:

http://www.elcomsoft.com/aefsdr.html

If not, then I'm sorry for your data loss.


Malke
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