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<blockquote data-quote="Alexdr" data-source="post: 630238" data-attributes="member: 62084">Update: Decryption has finished. Supposedly, i.e. &quot;supposedly&quot;, it worked because now when I used a Windows repair disk and run chkdsk it recognizes the file system as NTFS. I.e., on the data section of the harddrive, or at least where ever the identifier for the NTFS is would have to have been decoded correctly for it to recognize NTFS, hence, the decryption must have worked.Obviously the booting issue persists.A strange thing now is that, in Windows Repair tools loaded off of a disc, CHKDSK hangs after stating &quot;The type of the file system is NTFS&quot;, Diskpart hangs after telling the copyright and &quot;On Computer: XXXX-XXXXX&quot;, i.e. it doesn&#039;t actually get into the program Diskpart where the prompt changes from x:\sources&gt; to diskpart&gt;. Similarly, running the standard &quot;Startup Repair&quot; command given in repair mode hangs on &quot;Searching for problems&quot;, and bootrec /FixBoot and /FixMBR both state &quot;Element not found&quot;. I will also state that the operating system detected by the repair disc is &quot;Uknown&quot; and running bootrec /scanOs either hangs or is taking way too long for what I feel is right.My present thoughts are to make a clean install of Windows. I, however, want to make sure that I don&#039;t lose any data. Re-installing some programs is fine, but actual files must be kept.If anyone knows anything regarding the present situation, i.e. the issues described in this post, thank you.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Alexdr, post: 630238, member: 62084"] Update: Decryption has finished. Supposedly, i.e. "supposedly", it worked because now when I used a Windows repair disk and run chkdsk it recognizes the file system as NTFS. I.e., on the data section of the harddrive, or at least where ever the identifier for the NTFS is would have to have been decoded correctly for it to recognize NTFS, hence, the decryption must have worked. Obviously the booting issue persists. A strange thing now is that, in Windows Repair tools loaded off of a disc, CHKDSK hangs after stating "The type of the file system is NTFS", Diskpart hangs after telling the copyright and "On Computer: XXXX-XXXXX", i.e. it doesn't actually get into the program Diskpart where the prompt changes from x:\sources> to diskpart>. Similarly, running the standard "Startup Repair" command given in repair mode hangs on "Searching for problems", and bootrec /FixBoot and /FixMBR both state "Element not found". I will also state that the operating system detected by the repair disc is "Uknown" and running bootrec /scanOs either hangs or is taking way too long for what I feel is right. My present thoughts are to make a clean install of Windows. I, however, want to make sure that I don't lose any data. Re-installing some programs is fine, but actual files must be kept. If anyone knows anything regarding the present situation, i.e. the issues described in this post, thank you. [/QUOTE]

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