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Recovering A Corrupt Hard Drive That Is Encrypted

About Hard Drive Encryption

Hard drive encryption uses symmetrical and logarithmic keys in order to fully encrypt the drive. In terms of security this makes the drive extremely difficult to access unless you can gain access to one or both of these keys. NTFS formatted hard drives or partitions use an encryption system known as an Encrypting File System, or EFS for short. In order to retrieve information from a corrupt encrypted hard drive or to recover an encrypted file or folder from a hard drive it is necessary to have the encryption password. Alternatively it is necessary for the SAM database used by Windows 2000, XP, and 2003 to still be resident on the computer.

Logging On With Admin Rights To Retrieve Individual Files

If you need to recover one or several files then ensure that you are logged on under the administrator user in order to proceed. Once you begin the retrieval of the files you will usually be asked to provide the encryption password in order that you can proceed normally with the recovery. If you are attempting to restore an entire partition or hard drive then the process is essentially the same.

Encrypted Drives With No Password

Problems can occur, however, if you are attempting to recover an encrypted drive that you do not have the key or password for. This can occur, for instance, if an employee encrypts a disk on a work computer and then leaves the company without informing you of the new password. In some instances these can be virtually irretrievable through normal methods. Some data recovery services may still be able to help but very specialist knowledge is required to get through the encryption and then to recover the files.

Recovering Encrypted Hard Drives

Encrypting a hard drive is a superb way of securing all your personal information and sensitive information that you do not want others to access. As long as you retain the password that you set and retain admin user rights to your computer then you will be able to use any of a number of different data recovery packages in order to recover your hard drive or individual files found on your hard drive.

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