Plz Help

[nomadatutopia]

I'm using Win XP-SP1 and I have 4 partitions on my disk. The story is, I encrypted to secure data in a folder in one of the other drives, F: drive, ( C: is my main drive). After that, I encountered some problems with my computer so, I reformatted only C: drive again. I didn't format all the drives but just C:. After finishing installation and everything, I found out that I can't decrypt that folder in F: drive anymore. When I tried and tried again, "Access Denied" window appeared again and again. 🙁 Both Administrator name and Password before and after reformatting are the same. Can someone please help me how I can retrieve that data?

Thanking u all in advance guys.... do help me plz

 

[kamper]

Read here

and try a search next time

 

[nick1985]

wow....i think its gone 🙁

sorry i cant help 🙁

 

[thorin]

Originally posted by: kamper
Read here

and try a search next time

When it doubt try:
this

This makes me think of the awesome T-Shirt I saw the other day:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/coder/595d/zoom/

Thorin

 

[kamper]

Originally posted by: thorin
When it doubt try:
this

LOL, I bet that comes in handy alot 🙂

 

[LeetestUnleet]

Originally posted by: kamper

Originally posted by: thorin
When it doubt try:
this

LOL, I bet that comes in handy alot 🙂

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Anyhow, yeah your data is GONE. Sorry! Same thing happened to me a few months back. Luckily they were files that I had backed up to CD a few months earlier - I didn't lose it all, but I lost a few months worth of data. Still a pain to recover, but better than starting from scratch.

If anything like this happens in the future, you should note that the ONLY way of POSSIBLY recovering any of the files would be if they were in the Windows system root, in which case you might be able to use the System Recovery Console. Another option may be readNTFS boot disk, but I haven't tried it with encrypted files. Use at your own risk.

 

[nomadatutopia]

Thanks a lot guys. But I think my data is lost forever. I didn't back up anything before I reformatted. 🙁

Rgds,

 

[thorin]

Sorry dude. I wish we coulda been more help. I know I teased a bit earlier but I do know how that sucks when you've lost stuff 🙁

Thorin

 

[LeetestUnleet]

wow ... I don't know if the OP is still subscribed to this thread, but I found a fix (cuz I had to do the same thing, ironically). Sorry for an old-thread revive, but I can't send him a PM or view any contact info cuz he has it all disabled. Here's hoping he's getting subscription updates *crosses fingers*

Here's my thread, read my last post in it concerning Parts 3 and 4:
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=32&threadid=1289060

 

[sharq]

I think you just linked back to this same post. I click on your link and it brings me back here (browser is mozilla).

 

[LeetestUnleet]

Originally posted by: sharq
I think you just linked back to this same post. I click on your link and it brings me back here (browser is mozilla).

laugh, oops 😛 You're right. I'll edit appropriately, but here's the correct link as well.