How can I recover encrypted after reinstalling Windows jpg files?

ENCRYPTED JPG FILES

I recently had a major BONE down and since my laptop running XP Pro) was bought four years ago in a former

employer, that he hasn't had the recovery discs, I had a techie load discs of my daughter in my laptop. This of course

led to my loss of all files. I had the backup files to a hard drive stand alone. I had about 6 GB of photos, mostly from the jpg

which approximately 1/3 have been encrypted. I don't understand why, because all the photos have been scanned or copied on the

same laptop running XP Pro. I've never knowingly encrypted files. Is it possible I can get these encrypted

files? I don't have the certificate number of the previous operating system. Still, I don't understand why some files would be

encrypted while others were not using the same Windows XP Pro operating system. Can you help me? In the opposite case

I'll have to rescan hundres of photographs. Thank you.

Yes, the repair shop know what they were doing, but the fact that you gave them a Dell reinstallation CD, as well as the fact that you got the computer back without your files, suggests that what the store did was a "clean install".

The facts that the files appear in green and the encryption checkbox checked are bad for you.  Both indicate that the files are encrypted in fact using the Windows Encrypting File System (EFS).

I've never heard of files becomes encrypted without any action of the user, but how the files got encrypted are now irrelevant.

As far as I KNOW, your only hope is to download the demo version of Elcomsoft application linked in my previous post and see if we can find any trace of the hard disk encryption key which is not crushed by the relocation.  I don't know, but I suspect that the free trial will tell you if it can or cannot decrypt your files... but they will decrypt only really if you pay for it.

ElcomSoft claims success in situations like yours.  The less you use the computer before you run the data recovery software, the better your chances of recovery.  I think you have to go with the more expensive "professional" version.

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