Situation is my friend had a 4 gb photos on the desktop... windows xp... and one day just something happened and the system didn`t load even in safe mode... Then he installed new windows xp on the D: ... All photos went green (encrypted) ... The question is how to get back them, its extremely important because all photos are only digital and some of them are from 1980+ scanned. Thanks1 person needs an answerI do too

Encryption using XP's native EFS system cannot happen all by itself. Either your friend encrypted the original files or the computer is infected with ransomware. If the former, then your friend knew he encrypted the original files and if he didn't back up the encryption certificates the data is almost certainly inaccessible forever. He can contact Elcomsoft to see if their software will help, but there is no backdoor to EFS encryption. If the latter, then your friend would have gotten a message from the malware demanding he pay ransom to get the files unencrypted.http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457116.aspx -Using Encrypting File System (MS) http://www.elcomsoft.com/aefsdr.html -Encrypted files retrieval application And for future disaster planning:http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Backing_UpMS-MVP - Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic!