I was forced to repair my XP Professional using the original installation disk. Files I had encrypted are listed in green, but I cannot read them.<\/p>\n
Is there a way to read the files or decrypt them? Can I recover the original encryption certificates or reconstruct them?<\/p>\n
More info:
\nThere were no hardware failures. The machine is exactly the same. After the repair, the original account and password was intact (I did not have to recreate the account or set a new password. When I booted, Windows’ login screen had my original account name and accepted the password I always used).<\/p>\n
The first thing that happened when trouble started – I was unable to boot at all because one of the hive files had become corrupt or missing according to the error message on the blue screen. I backed up the files in system32\/config and replaced SOFTWARE with software.bak and software.sav on various attempts. That made no difference.<\/p>\n
Strangely, when I put the original SOFTWARE file back in system32\/config, the machine booted to the login screen but told me that it could not verify my Windows license (error80090019).<\/p>\n
I think, but can’t be sure, that rsaenh.dll had somehow become unregistered. I was unable to run regsvr32 in safe mode or recovery mode.<\/p>\n
After trying to boot with the last known good configuration and many attempts at rolling back to a previous restore point (with windows boot disc, safe mode, UBCD4Win…), I did a repair installation.<\/p>\n
All my documents appear to be intact. I need to re-install all my programs like Office and Notebook++, but otherwise everything appears to be fine.<\/p>\n
(After all this, yes, I’ve learned I should have backed up my encryption certificates.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":116},"question-category":[76],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-2352","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-windows-xp"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/2352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=2352"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=2352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}