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I have a serious problem. I have a client that had a bunch of personal data on his work laptop. He retired and sent the laptop back , only before I copied over his documents and music...etc. Well I just went to copy back his data to his new computer and found out that the files are encrypted. I have no way to decrypt them as the laptop was sent back and most likely the HDD was destroyed. So is there any hope of decrypting the files? I have already tried Advnaced EFS Data Recovery but it says the files are not decryptable.
Thanks,
--Steve
I have a serious problem. I have a client that had a bunch of personal data on his work laptop. He retired and sent the laptop back , only before I copied over his documents and music...etc. Well I just went to copy back his data to his new computer and found out that the files are encrypted. I have no way to decrypt them as the laptop was sent back and most likely the HDD was destroyed. So is there any hope of decrypting the files? I have already tried Advnaced EFS Data Recovery but it says the files are not decryptable.
Thanks,
--Steve
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