{"id":39195,"date":"2020-04-18T23:50:17","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T03:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.opensource.im\/uncategorized\/decrypting-file-on-external-drive-encryption-methods-and-programs-bleepingcomputer.php"},"modified":"2020-04-18T23:50:17","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T03:50:17","slug":"decrypting-file-on-external-drive-encryption-methods-and-programs-bleepingcomputer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/encryption\/decrypting-file-on-external-drive-encryption-methods-and-programs-bleepingcomputer.php","title":{"rendered":"Decrypting file on external drive &#8211; Encryption Methods and Programs &#8211; BleepingComputer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Hello,<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>A few days ago my laptop crashed and I had to reinstall W10 all over again. Luckily I had copied most of my files on an external drive. What I forgot to do is decrypt the files first before putting them on that drive. I used cipher to encrypt.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Now that I have reinstalled W10 (it works fine again), I cannot open these files. I have tried to decrypt with command prompt (D:>cipher \/d \"D:>folderfolder.doc.doc\" whereas D: is the letter of the external drive), I also tried right mouse click on the document (on the external drive) > Properties > tab Security > Advanced \/ Edit > ... , following tips from the internet. But I still cannot decrypt the files. Even copying to the laptop drive isn't allowed.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Can anybody help?<\/p>\n<p>Regards,<\/p>\n<p>jazz<\/p>\n<p>Edited by hamluis, Today, 05:35 PM.Moved from W10 Discussion to Encryption - Hamluis.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Read the original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/forums\/t\/717489\/decrypting-file-on-external-drive\/\" title=\"Decrypting file on external drive - Encryption Methods and Programs - BleepingComputer\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Decrypting file on external drive - Encryption Methods and Programs - BleepingComputer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Hello, A few days ago my laptop crashed and I had to reinstall W10 all over again. Luckily I had copied most of my files on an external drive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encryption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}