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| | No backup of Vista EFS certificate from system that won't boot -recovering file Thank you in advance for any guidance! ![]() Vista Ultimate (32bit SP1) system is corrupted enough to not boot but accessing the HD from another system seems to have virtually everything intact. One single file was encrypted using EFS on the system. I'm wondering if there is a way to manually transfer over the certificate/s from the old hard drive into the new system. I am aware of ElcomSoft's Advanced EFS Data Recovery software but the problem is that the file that is encrypted is actually another file that is encrypted using another encrypted software (basically the file is encrypted twice, the outside container is Vista EFS and the inside container is TrueCrypt). So I can't see if ElcomSoft's Advanced EFS Data Recovery software will work in the demo/trial as I still have yet another step to proceed to decrypt the file in TrueCrypt. I've found manual recovery processes for XP ( http://www.beginningtoseethelight.org/efsrecovery/ )but the registry structure is different enough in Vista that I can't find the same place in Vista. Does anyone know the comparable location in Vista for hklm\sam\sam \domains\account\users\%usernumbers% (which is XP)? Any other ideas? |
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