"Bill" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> My PC crashed and I had to re-install XP pro but my encrypted folder is
> not
> accessable.
> I have been able to "restore" restore points from the previous
> installation
> and
> I have "encrypted" copies of the registry
Not sure what you mean by that. If you mean old copies of the system
registry when it was running with an encrypted folder, they are not useful
for removing encryption. Neither is the a copy of the old Windows folder
structure. A complete bootable image of the pre-crash hard disk might be;
you would restore this to a new drive and export the certificates from it,
then import them to the re-installation.
> any ideas how to unencrypt the folder
If by "encrypted folder" you mean that you applied encryption to specific
folders or files, what you need to do is to import the encryption
certificates you created at that time. Or, use the recovery agent you
specified.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308993
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223316/EN-US/
Unfortunately, if you didn't do either of those things, chances are very
high that the data is simply not recoverable.
HTH
-pk
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