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After my profile became corrupt (from an IE7 developer toolbar bug... that's another story), I was forced to deleted C:\Documents And Settings[myUserAccount]. After having a sysadmin recreate the profile, I now do not have access to any of my encrypted files (using EFS Enable) - I get access denied to everything. Just speculating, and I don't really want a bunch of answers directly on this speculation, but I fear the private key was lost when the profile was deleted.
I am an admin on the machine and all the files are my own creation, and I should have full control. System restore is out of the question because it was turned off by a group policy. Looking for a way to regain access to or decrypt these files... if they are not already corrupted.
Edit: Thanks for the correction Gilles. @Randolph Potter: I have my old profile still in docs and settings as [profile]_old. Could I just delete my current on and rename [profile]_old back to [profile]? Would that by chance bring back my SID/private key? What if I set the SID of Administrator to my profile in the Registry?
3The EFS is connected to the SID of your username. If that key was deleted, you're probably going to need to restore from a backup to reacquire access to the files. – None – 2010-11-17T22:15:26.517
I think you mean your private key was deleted. If it was, you have two options: try to recover it on your drive (i.e. try to undelete the file containing the key, hoping it hasn't been overwritten; note that to have any hope you need to stop writing to that partition); or recover from a backup. – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' – 2010-11-18T00:51:00.500