"johns" <johns321@moscow.com> wrote in message
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>
> This takes talent. You must be in-training to
> become a professor. Seems you've backed
> yourself into a corner with too much theory
> and too little fact. I've been called to this
> one about 1000 times now, and it is a challenge.
> My advice to begin with is take the bad
> disk, and mount it as a SATA 2 in a known
> good computer ... not hacked by a professor.
> Then open the drive folder and click on TOOLS
> ... Folder Options ... View ... and scroll down
> to the bottom of the list and uncheck Simple
> File Sharing. That will let you see SECURITY
> TAB under the drive Properties ( Rclick to see ).
> Make sure you list Administrator with full
> rights ( you may need to ADD Administrator ).
> Then, possibly, you can get control of those
> files. As for the encrypted files ???? NEVER
> encrypt files. If you need to encrypt files, you
> more better need to NOT CREATE them in
> the first place. Your only chance there is to
> contact the person who wrote the Encryption
> Program to download an encryption snooper
> from him. I think I know the program you
> probably used .. and that guy can help you.
> He says so on his web site.
> The only other thing I can think of .. which I
> have done with minor success is to restore
> the boot sector. You can get to that by booting
> the install cd, and selecting one of the recovery
> methods that lets you "sys" the C-drive. Also,
> I've run straight Checkdsk and recovered a few
> times, but that way can sack the corrupted
> files, along with the entire disk if the files
> have become crosslinked.
>
> johns
>


Or you could use a linux boot CD (Knoppix is good) and access the files
regardless of security permissions. Download knoppix (or similar) burn CD
and make sure you PC is set to boot from the CD-ROM. Linux boot CDs
typically access the drive on read-only mode for added safety.
If the files really are encrypted (which you would definitely know because
you would have enabled encryption for some reason and knew exactly what you
were doing when you did it) a boot CD will not help. As I have never felt
the need to encrypt my files, I cannot help you with this one!

Glenn