Encrypted file shows as un-encrypted

[Microsoft]

I have salvaged a file after deletion using a rescue tool.
However, it was encrypted file, but after the rescue it shows as normal file
and is inaccesible.

Does anyone knows how to to restore it to its previous status? it means
adding the needed information to the MFT to identify it as encrypted.
I use XP sp 2 and use the same user that encrypted the file.


Arik

[Nicholas]

Without a backup of the original Encryption Certificate Key, encrypted =
files
are unrecoverable as they will stay encrypted forever. There is no =
recovery
method since the encryption algorithm is now different with a reinstall
of Windows XP.

See if the following article helps in any way:

HOW TO: Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=3Dkb;en-us;308421

P.S. In the future, please do not use "Microsoft" as your newsgroup =
alias.
You have no authority to do so and it can be misleading to others.


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Nicholas

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| I have salvaged a file after deletion using a rescue tool.
| However, it was encrypted file, but after the rescue it shows as =
normal file
| and is inaccesible.
|=20
| Does anyone knows how to to restore it to its previous status? it =
means
| adding the needed information to the MFT to identify it as encrypted.
| I use XP sp 2 and use the same user that encrypted the file.
|=20
|=20
| Arik

[Sudman]

1. There is no re-install of XP, it is the same install that encrypted the
file.
2. The file was deleted by mistake with its folder. In order to salvage it I
used a salvage tool, but it does not support the encryption function.
3. The result is file which is shown as "normal" but is encypted.

In that case can I re-encypt it?
P.S - I have corrected the default user "microsoft"


"Nicholas" > wrote in message
...
Without a backup of the original Encryption Certificate Key, encrypted files
are unrecoverable as they will stay encrypted forever. There is no recovery
method since the encryption algorithm is now different with a reinstall
of Windows XP.

See if the following article helps in any way:

HOW TO: Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421

P.S. In the future, please do not use "Microsoft" as your newsgroup alias.
You have no authority to do so and it can be misleading to others.


--
Nicholas

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"No One" > wrote in message:
...

| I have salvaged a file after deletion using a rescue tool.
| However, it was encrypted file, but after the rescue it shows as normal
file
| and is inaccesible.
|
| Does anyone knows how to to restore it to its previous status? it means
| adding the needed information to the MFT to identify it as encrypted.
| I use XP sp 2 and use the same user that encrypted the file.
|
|
| Arik