"Denver" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:...
> Hi,
>
> My HDD died!!
>
> I recovered my files from the dead HDD by using it as a secondary drive
and
> extracting almost all the files and folders.
>
> My problem is that I had offline folders enabled that I need to recover
> back. After some investigation, I found out that offline line files and
> folders are kept in the C:\windows\CSC folder. I extracted this CSC folder
> from the dead HDD. However, they seem to be encrypted.
>
> Following is the dir listing of my recovered CSC folder. The size of these
> folders (5Gig) seems to indicate the correct size of my offline folder.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> 16/12/2003 06:43 PM <DIR> .
> 16/12/2003 06:43 PM <DIR> ..
> 11/12/2003 01:29 AM 880 00000001
> 10/12/2003 08:25 AM 0 00000002
> 01/05/2003 12:58 AM 96 00000003
> 08/12/2003 09:45 PM 764,096 csc1.tmp
> 16/12/2003 06:46 PM <DIR> d1
> 16/12/2003 06:43 PM <DIR> d2
> 16/12/2003 06:40 PM <DIR> d3
> 16/12/2003 06:37 PM <DIR> d4
> 16/12/2003 06:34 PM <DIR> d5
> 16/12/2003 06:31 PM <DIR> d6
> 16/12/2003 06:27 PM <DIR> d7
> 16/12/2003 06:25 PM <DIR> d8
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Can you please help me to recover these files back. All the contents of
seem
> to be in the d1 - d8 folders, but they appear in a format of
00000A01 -
> not recognisable as a one of my files. They look encrypted and I need them
> to be decrypted back to my normal form.
>
> Can someone please help.
>
> thanks heaps!
>
>
>

[MarcoC]

Have you ever found a fix for this?? Are there any tools??

Originally Posted by Denver

"Denver" wrote in message news:...
> Hi,
>
> My HDD died!!
>
> I recovered my files from the dead HDD by using it as a secondary drive
and
> extracting almost all the files and folders.
>
> My problem is that I had offline folders enabled that I need to recover
> back. After some investigation, I found out that offline line files and
> folders are kept in the C:\windows\CSC folder. I extracted this CSC folder
> from the dead HDD. However, they seem to be encrypted.
>
> Following is the dir listing of my recovered CSC folder. The size of these
> folders (5Gig) seems to indicate the correct size of my offline folder.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> 16/12/2003 06:43 PM .
> 16/12/2003 06:43 PM ..
> 11/12/2003 01:29 AM 880 00000001
> 10/12/2003 08:25 AM 0 00000002
> 01/05/2003 12:58 AM 96 00000003
> 08/12/2003 09:45 PM 764,096 csc1.tmp
> 16/12/2003 06:46 PM d1
> 16/12/2003 06:43 PM d2
> 16/12/2003 06:40 PM d3
> 16/12/2003 06:37 PM d4
> 16/12/2003 06:34 PM d5
> 16/12/2003 06:31 PM d6
> 16/12/2003 06:27 PM d7
> 16/12/2003 06:25 PM d8
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Can you please help me to recover these files back. All the contents of
seem
> to be in the d1 - d8 folders, but they appear in a format of
00000A01 -
> not recognisable as a one of my files. They look encrypted and I need them
> to be decrypted back to my normal form.
>
> Can someone please help.
>
> thanks heaps!
>
>
>

[AfricanLionHeart]

Originally Posted by Denver

"Denver" >
wrote in message news:...
> Hi,
>
> My HDD died!!
>
> I recovered my files from the dead HDD by using it as a secondary drive
and
> extracting almost all the files and folders.

Hi Denver (and everyone else who can help)
I've just had the same problem; My HDD died!!, but I'm not as clever as Denver. How do you recover a dead HDD?!