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I used Encrypted File System on my profile and my documents. Windows were
encrypting my data for about 90 minutes. Everything was OK (files were
encrypted, showing green color in Explorer) until next reboot. Then I was
unable to login, there was a disk activity for few hours, then no activity at
all. With other users I can logon. After I managed to login back with my
account (I deleted encrypted wallpaper) I found that I can't open encrypted
files. In mmc my certificate is there, it says "you have a private key
matching the certificate", but I can't export the key (one dialog later it
says "private key not found"). After this point, until the next reboot, all
requests to encrypt/decrypt files just hang and the requesting application
must be killed.
I found three files in <profile>\Application
Data\Microsoft\Crypto\RSA\S-1-5-21-2052111302-630328440-682003330-1003, two
of them encrypted. I restored the encrypted ones from backup (encrypted ones
kept elsewhere), but nothing changed.
Anyone has an idea how private key can get "half-lost" this way? Any idea
how to recover from this situation?
encrypting my data for about 90 minutes. Everything was OK (files were
encrypted, showing green color in Explorer) until next reboot. Then I was
unable to login, there was a disk activity for few hours, then no activity at
all. With other users I can logon. After I managed to login back with my
account (I deleted encrypted wallpaper) I found that I can't open encrypted
files. In mmc my certificate is there, it says "you have a private key
matching the certificate", but I can't export the key (one dialog later it
says "private key not found"). After this point, until the next reboot, all
requests to encrypt/decrypt files just hang and the requesting application
must be killed.
I found three files in <profile>\Application
Data\Microsoft\Crypto\RSA\S-1-5-21-2052111302-630328440-682003330-1003, two
of them encrypted. I restored the encrypted ones from backup (encrypted ones
kept elsewhere), but nothing changed.
Anyone has an idea how private key can get "half-lost" this way? Any idea
how to recover from this situation?