Encryption

[Nick]

I have a second hard drive that I keep encrypted. My
main hard drive had a crash and I had to reformat and
reinstall Windows. So now I cannot access the encrypted
data on my second hard drive (as I expected.) My
question is, can I get this data back in any way, or is
it simply gone?

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Nick;
For all practical purposes the data may be gone for good.
See this link for possible options if you have the necessary back-ups:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/encrypt.htm
Also see the links near the bottom to help prevent this in the future.

 

[Guest]

you simply copy the keys you saved when you set up
encryption back to the new install and it will start
working again.