gardentech
Technical User
I am in a horrible dilemna and everyone I have talked to say that I'm flat out of luck.
I have a C: and D: drive on my desktop. It is part of our home wireless network. There was years of "junk" on my computer so I decided to clean it up. I gathered all my data into one folder and did a back up and then reformatted the C drive. When I went to restore the data it was encrypted and now of course the FEK is gone. We don't know HOW it got encrypted. And, of course, the network administrator (my husband) had not set up any data recovery agent. We are running Windows XP Professional. I have recovered the individual data files that existed before I put them all into the backup folder. But each one of them is encrypted. Since I did not encrypt them I did not make a copy of the FEK. We are stymied as to how it happened.
Anyway, we've been told that I just put my data into a safety deposit box, locked it, threw away the key, and don't remember what building I put it in.
Anybody know of a forensic recovery specialist or "hacker" that can decrypt my stuff. My whole life is in that data! Seven years worth of photos, Financial & Medical information, and 20 years of horticulture research!
HELP! But I'm not holding my breath - trying to come to terms with the loss but in denial.
Pam
I have a C: and D: drive on my desktop. It is part of our home wireless network. There was years of "junk" on my computer so I decided to clean it up. I gathered all my data into one folder and did a back up and then reformatted the C drive. When I went to restore the data it was encrypted and now of course the FEK is gone. We don't know HOW it got encrypted. And, of course, the network administrator (my husband) had not set up any data recovery agent. We are running Windows XP Professional. I have recovered the individual data files that existed before I put them all into the backup folder. But each one of them is encrypted. Since I did not encrypt them I did not make a copy of the FEK. We are stymied as to how it happened.
Anyway, we've been told that I just put my data into a safety deposit box, locked it, threw away the key, and don't remember what building I put it in.
Anybody know of a forensic recovery specialist or "hacker" that can decrypt my stuff. My whole life is in that data! Seven years worth of photos, Financial & Medical information, and 20 years of horticulture research!
HELP! But I'm not holding my breath - trying to come to terms with the loss but in denial.
Pam
