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Old 05-24-2006, 07:45 AM   #1 (permalink)
ironman
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Location: Guatemala, Guatemala
Problem with back-uped encrypted files

In the last 3 years my office was robbed twice, and my laptops, along with all my honeymoon pictures, were lost forever. So, when i bought my last laptop one year ago, i decided to make regular backups of my info in an external HDD at home and to encrypt all my files.
It all worked flawless untill my lappy started to overheat, so i sold it after copying all my files to the external HDD, i made sure to place all my important files into one folder and to remove the encryption to the whole folder. Problem was that after formatting and selling the laptop, i realized that only half my files had been unencrypted for a reason i still don't understand. So i have over 11GB of info i can't access and don't know what to do.
I have a backup made with the xp backup utility around 3 months ago, but when i tried to restore it in my new computer, it does not create my previous user, nor can i access the encypted files. Does anyone have any idea what can i do to recover this files? Please help me! i can stand loosing data because of a robbery, but not because of a dumb error.
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