Group: microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin
From: Chris
Date: Thursday, April 10, 2008 3:43 PM
Subject: Re: EFS files suddenly inaccessible

On Apr 10, 12:06 pm, Chris wrote:
> Sometime yesterday all my encrypted files became inaccessible. My
> system password hasn't changed, and my encrypted file system
> certificate is still intact and valid. I can encrypt new files and
> decrypt them just fine. I'm confused as to how this happened. Any
> ideas?

My certificate is still around, but the system managed to disassociate
them from EFS somehow. Advanced EFS Data Recovery managed to recover
all the files intact. Weird.