Hi All,
I am truly hope that you will be able to help me with this as i am devastated after realizing that i lost my data from the last 10 years.
I backed up my documents from win 7 to an external hard drive and formatted my laptop twice after having on it win 7. I then installed a fresh windows 8 and when i tried to copy back my files from the external hard drive to the new windows 8 or even to any other computer, I couldn't access the files nor open them as they are encrypted. I then realized that i should have saved the certificate to restore access to EFS encrypted files. I tried all sort of tools such as Advanced EFS data recovery and other online professional services and offline data recovery companies with no success to recover the data.
Can anyone, please help me with any input to sort out this issue if possible. I don't mind to pay for such a service but so far online and offline data recovery companies couldn't help me with a solution and said that i lost my data forever since i didn't save the EFS certificate .
Please note that the files/data is still on the external hard drive with the original files sizes. I still believe that there is a way of bypassing the EFS encryption even that i wont be able to get hold of the old win 7 EFS certificate for these files.
Thank you in advance for any input,
Ben
