Re: Windows private folder option decryption

["xyberpix" <xyberpix () xyberpix com>]

If you have another har drive lying around somewhere, chuck that into his
machien as well, they boot into knoppix, and copy all the files accross
encrypted, then re-install his machine and copy the files back, and then
let him decrypt them. Not too sure if this would work, but it's worth a
shot.

xyberpix

On Tue, 7 December, 2004 8:01 pm, Jon Lawhead said:
> 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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