OK boyboy,


You might try the trial version of this application I know that it is limited as a trial but I don't know how much.

http://www.elcomsoft.com/aefsdr.html?r1=pr&r2=efs_pro

I am inclined to agree with you that it seems to be some form of corruption. In theory your SSID on that machine should let you in given that you haven't changed passwords, done a repair install or whatever.

This leads me to the question: are those files really encrypted? Like were they in green before this happened?

I do know of a way to extract them, but if they are encrypted that probably won't be much help, unless the corruption is only at the folder level, rather than the file level.

I am afraid that I don't know enough about the inner workings of EFS/BitLocker to say.

Please check this out:

http://www.roadkil.net/

"unstoppable copier" or possibly "raw copy" might work.

Please read the instructions carefully as the product is not designed for individual folder or file recovery. You will probably need a partition as large as your data or external media the same. Whilst I have used it in its various versions over a number of years, I have never checked to see if it only needs space enough for all the data or the whole partition/drive.