re: Recovery of encrypted profile folders - howto? Friday, July 17, 2009 at 3:34 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Adam Bradley (8786 messages posted) New install means a new user ID number, unless you backed up the old key (and not being sure is pretty much a no) the files are gone. There is no way to recover them off the disk without that backed up key. On Friday, July 17, 2009 at 3:03 pm, hoqenishy wrote: >Hi all! > >I'm stuck helping my father recover his dead XP install. I've been using my SATA >to USB to recover most of the stuff, but am stuck trying to get his profile folders >(My Documents, Desktop etc). I can copy files in Recovery Mode, but we're talking >hundreds of files, and the lack of an xcopy or the ability to use wildcard is KILLING >me! > >Anyway, could someone recommend a data-recovery tool out there that will allow me >to pull the encrypted contents of this profile off the disk? I presume that my SAM >file is still intact, so there's got to be some way to do this! Written in response to: Recovery of encrypted profile folders - howto? (hoqenishy: Friday, July 17, 2009 at 3:03 pm) Responses to this message: re: Recovery of encrypted profile folders - howto? (hoqenishy: Friday, July 17, 2009 at 4:06 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Recovery of encrypted profile folders - howto? (hoqenishy: Fri, Jul 17, 2009, 3:03 pm) re: Recovery of encrypted profile folders - howto? (Adam Bradley: Fri, Jul 17, 2009, 3:34 pm) re: Recovery of encrypted profile folders - howto? (hoqenishy: Fri, Jul 17, 2009, 4:06 pm) re: Recovery of encrypted profile folders - howto? (Adam Bradley: Fri, Jul 17, 2009, 9:50 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum