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Old 06-25-2003, 07:27 AM   #8 (permalink)
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Originally posted by iAvalance
You propably have used a security policy on your disk. By reinstalling XP you lost the unique key to this encryption algorithm and you can forget anything what's on it. This is basically a protection feature; if you steal someone's hard drive you can't read it for you need the computer that owned it... and if that one is well protected some way (like access control a.k.a. login) the data is safe.

This is what I think your problem can be after reading your case... Maybe oneone else knows for sure and helps you recover your data as in my case that is impossible...
I am sure that iAvalance is on the money-- I am not sure if any of the commonly available programs can decrypt them.
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