decrypting a slave HDD

Check this link out and see if it works for ya…
http//www.tweakxp.com/article37355.aspx
(nevermind.. for the above you need the user accounts to still be around..which you don't have.. Sorry.)

Rob

Thanks anyway! ) I 've been trying the last 3 days all the advices found on net…

Have you tried to recover any user data off the formatted drive?

Have you tried to recover any user data off the formatted drive?

I've tried but now i taking a look at my records and found out that the master was a defective hdd and that's why i replaced it…so i'm done with this issue ? evil i will never ever get access to files on the slave hdd.

Thank you all off you who tried to help me wink

I've tried but now i taking a look at my records and found out that the master was a defective hdd and that's why i replaced it…so i'm done with this issue ? evil i will never ever get access to files on the slave hdd.

It may not be bootable, but that does not necessarily mean you cannot get access to the files necessary to decrypt the EFS encrypted files. Have you tried examining the drive with Helix or one of the other *nix variants to see if you can get the data from the master needed for decryption?

It can be done but you need a couple registry files from the OS drive. As BitHead said, the drive may work well enough to pull those off. If you don't have that it's a lost cause.