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Cannot open Encrypted Files after Format

I recently formatted *bi-monthly* scheduled practice of mine, and forgot about saving encryption key's.  I used windows to encrypte a few docs, and of course now cannot access them.  I know there is software out there that can help to guess keys, if you can remember your password used to encrypt.  Well, I know my password, but of course the SID is different.  Anybody have suggestions of what software is best\cheapest?  or any advice on manually cracking?  
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I'm afraid with Vista - the data is gone!

Cheers,
Rajesh
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Well, I do have xp as well, I'm in a dual boot situation.  
So are the files encrypted in XP or Vista's inbuilt ?

Cheers,
Rajesh
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Encrypted in XP.  I'm booted to XP currently, using same *administrator* account username and password that I was using pre-format.  
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How bout safe mode , or boot to vista's windows PE cmd or utility?
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