I recently reformatted my C drive and re-installed XP onto it. Before doing so, I moved some files from my C drive to my D drive for backup. I guess I accidentally encrypted these files along the way (still not sure how I managed to do this).

Now here's my dilemma. I can't decrypt these files now since the users/certificates aren't matching. I've browsed the windows help & support along with various web threads/advice and nothing works. I don't have any copies of the encrytion keys as they were all wiped from my C drive when I reformatted. All I have are these files which I can't access. No n matter what I seem to do.

The encrypted file(s) that I'm trying to access are very important pieces of work that many weeks of time went into.

Any advice? or any way I can just change my comp name to match that of the previous designated user who could transparently access the file..and if so how do I go about doing that?

I know enough about computing but I'm definately no expert so excuse me if I'm missing something obvious or simply aren't "getting it". Any help would be greatly appreciated as I'm quite frustrated