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jumanji, is it possible that henri's SSD was using encryption involving a Windows user account's password -- EFS?
jumanji, is it possible that henri's SSD was using encryption involving a Windows user account's password -- EFS?
Honestly ,Roland, I had no idea whatsoever about something called EFS :). On a casual read, I understand that it is not a full-disk encryption but a file level encryption to be implemented by enabling it in Advanced attributes for each file by the user..
In any case it is the OP who has to answer that question. Let us see his answer.
I would presume even if a file is encrypted by EFS, the Volume Boot Record (VBR), which is not a user-accessible file, could not be encrypted and it should be possible to recover the partitions from the VBRs and may be a data recovery program would still recover an encrypted file.
As I understand, the file is not encrypted when written. It is only later, a user has to select the file he wants to encrypt , go into the Properties > Advanced and implement it.
This user selected file encryption is not controlled by Windows but by the NTFS File System in the HDD/SDD. So it will continue to be encrypted and accessible only to that user and user linked Password. I am not going to break my head further on this aspect unless there is a need and a user reports he had employed EFS for some files.. In any case in such an instance and if the partition recovery is successful, the user can create an account with the original user name and password to access the encrypted files.
jumanji - you're aok!! Always good to see you in these forums! :) Have a great week, see ya in the papers! :)
Yes, it is all 00s everywhere except Sector 0 and 2048 (QuickFormat creation), as would happen with a complete wipe.
However i'm thankful for all your endeavour, i'm sorry that we couldn't solve this problem.
But i'm glad that i found a good friend and will be more glad of keeping in touch with you.
I don't know weather you have read details that i wrote about Armenia in this post
SSD hard drive, deleted and quick formatted volumes
but i'll give you my contacts.
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