Re: Windows private folder option decryption

[Gaspar de Elías <gaspar.delias () gmail com>]

hi, have you tried to boot in safe mode, it uses genereic vga drivers.
Or you could plug the hard disk on a XP machine and decrypt those folders.

they are just ideas, tell me if they work.

bye


On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 12:01:16 -0800, Jon Lawhead <samurai () berkeley edu> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I work as a tech, and I have a problem that I haven't encountered before, and am looking for
> ideas.  I have a client who attempted to upgrade the drivers for his graphics card, but somehow
> botched it and now his computer won't boot into windows.  I would generally fix the problem by
> booting into Knoppix, but he's encrypted all his files using the Windows private folder option in
> XP, so that doesn't work.  Does anyone know of any tools and/or procedures that I could use to get
> around this, either by decrypting the files via knoppix or by any other means.  If I can't find
> anything, I'm going to be forced to tell him to just reformat, which I don't want to do.  Thanks
> for your help!
>
>
> Jon Lawhead
> UC Berkeley SINE/ResComp


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Gaspar de Elías