[Help] XP NTFS encryption issues

[PhillyGeek]

Ok here is my trouble.

I have a machine that is NOT in a domain, nor was it ever.

Encrypted files were created on the machine.

Machine then gets horrible nasty virus/rootkit and bad user intervention.

Reinstall wasn't an option that worked, yes it was done several time.

Durring this process the HD was made unbootable.

Can read the drive in another machine.

What is the best/easiest method to get the NTFS encrypted off of the original hard drive?

I am thinking it might be easiest to try to get the original drive bootable again. (which is what I will try first unless I can find an easier way. Mind you I have the drives not the original machine and not sure I can get the original drive to boot without reinstalling, and not sure if XP can make a dynamic drive a primary without deleteing the information never came up before.)

Any reccomandations? Warnings? Words of wisdom?

I am not afraid to use linux/unix. I have a linux live distro designed for file recovery that I will try soon as the HD comes back to me from the user. But honestly I am stumbling blind without a domain recovery agent:-(

[Sonic]

To recover encrypted data from disk, you must login with the original username and original password. So IMHO you must find a solution to boot again on that windows, if hard disk is bad, try to ghost on another disk.

What error happens during a repair ? Have you tried recovery console ?