Decrypt EFS files
Fresh3 days ago
Mar 15, 20266785 viewsConfidence Score0%
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Here's my situation. Was using EFS on my Vista laptop - had a backup of my certificate. HD crashed...managed to recover some of my files (Encrypted) - but they "lost" the "Encrypted" attribute in the process. I'm now on my new Windows 7 Enterprise laptop - imported my old Vista EFS certificate...I …
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Fix for: Decrypt EFS files
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The EFS keys are kept in NTFS alternate data streams, so if your USB drive was not formatted as an NTFS drive, the information would be lost. Backup programs often discard this information as well. You can check if the streams are still there using …
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