NDawgg Posted October 22, 2007 Report Share Posted October 22, 2007 Guys,Is there a way to recover your files if you encrypted them using the windows EFS? I applied the security on some of my files, did not back up the certificate and completely reformatted my hard drive . After I reformatted the drive (did make a backup of my files)I realized I had encrypted those files. I really need these files and cannot afford to go for the professional drive recovery option as it is really expensive. is there anything I could do that way i could recover those files. any help would be really appreciated.ThanksNate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted October 23, 2007 Report Share Posted October 23, 2007 Welcome to the Windows Forum.If there were a way to decrypt your files without the key/certificate, then the encryption would be as good as worthless. You wanted to protect your data, and now they are protected. I'm not sure if even professionals can help you with that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Frederick™ Posted October 23, 2007 Report Share Posted October 23, 2007 You wanted to protect your data, and now they are protected. I'm not sure if even professionals can help you with that.Pat's right. You wanted those files to be protected and that's what they are. However, this might help - http://www.crackpassword.com/products/prs/mswin/efs/Let us know how it goes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NDawgg Posted October 23, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 23, 2007 You wanted to protect your data, and now they are protected. I'm not sure if even professionals can help you with that.Pat's right. You wanted those files to be protected and that's what they are. However, this might help - http://www.crackpassword.com/products/prs/mswin/efs/Let us know how it goes!I know...I protected my data a little too well.. Even i can't view those files :(. Now do you guys think i would be able to view those files if i waited for the certificate to expire which it does in 2016 :/ ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gagaman Posted October 23, 2007 Report Share Posted October 23, 2007 This is a €99 solution; http://www.elcomsoft.com/aefsdr.htmlI dont know what those files are worth to you, but if they are very important, it could be ok...Never used this myself thoughalso this may be an interestin read for you: http://www.beginningtoseethelight.org/efsrecovery/index.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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