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How to decrypt EFS files, with key, that win7 thinks are unencrypted
Hi Folks,
Problem as per title.
I got here as follows:
1) fatal hardware disk crash, killing part of one partition.
2) Acronis disk image of the partition remnants to freeze conditiion (mostly good files)
3) Unloaded image onto sound hard disk. Plan was to get good + bad files onto a stable disk.
What I actually got was a raw disk. So I ran GetDataBack to see what was there, and it does contain a bunch of my files. However, I can't open them, because the originals were encrypted with EFS. I have the keys. I have the original laptop up and running on a new disk. I can get to all the encrypted files on the new disk.
But GetDataBack just did a raw file recovery, so I have the files, sized, extensions and name. However, windows sees them as unencrypted, and thus won't decrypt them.
cipher /d won't touch them either.
So I need a means to force the Encrypted flag, without actually (double) encrypting the files.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!