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Known problems and limitations
- The program can decrypt protected files only if encryption keys (at least, some of them) are still exist in the system and have not been tampered.
- Only "Basic" (but not "Dynamic") NTFS partitions are supported.
- For files encrypted on Windows 2000, if Account Database Key (SYSKEY) is stored on floppy disk, or if "Password Startup" option has been set, you should know/have one of the following in order to be able to decrypt the files:
- startup password or startup floppy disk
- the password of user who encrypted the files
- the password of Recovery Agent (if one is availbale)
- If password of the user (who encrypted the files) have been changed after encryption, you may need to enter the old password into the program.
- If files were encrypted under Windows XP (with or without SP1/SP2) or Windows Server 2003, the password of user who encrypted the files (or Recovery Agent) is needed for decryption.
- The program has been tested only on files encrypted under U.S. version of Windows; if any other (international) version has been used, correct work is not guaranteed.
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if you only backed up the encrypted files, it wont work, if you backed up your entire system, it could.
Basically the program is helping people who have everything they need to decrypt the files but don’t know how to do it.
oh and after rereading your first post, one word of warning, formatting does not always wipe the data, a quick format erases the table that points to the data, not the actual data, but what most people don’t know is that a full format (windows full format) it does not either, it only checks for bad sectors, not erasing data. You need to use a program that actually rewrites at least once. Heh at work last yesterday, I took some old hard drives with sensitive data on them over to the welding shop and took a torch to them, blasted a hole through the drives.