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phantomplay
01-23-2007, 11:26 AM
I recently had to reinstall XP on my main drive. In my hurry to get it done, I apparently forgot to turn off a folder locking program for one of my SATA drives. I also forgot to export some emails containing information about the program from outlook. Now I'm completely stuck. Here's my details:

C: drive is EIDE, two SATA drives D: and Z:
C: drive only runs OS and core programs
Z: drive is game drive and is working fine
D: drive is where the problem is.

I have used cipher command from command prompt to decrypt all the directories in D:, but all of the files are still locked. File links show in green, and nothing that was on the drive can be opened, much less modified. Attempts to decrypt with other software to no avail as I need the original encryption key (which I don't have)

Don't know how often people need to hack their own stuff, but I would appreciate any help. Hundreds of pictures and business files locked down, and wife is pretty upset. HELP!