Many of us are aware of the importance of our hard drives in our daily life and how dependent we are on the data that we store in it each day weather it is for business or personal use we may have very important and confidential data in our computers that needs to be protected and secured. Windows offers many advanced useful features for the users including the EFS technology (Encrypting File System) that protects our data.

This unique feature was 1st introduced in Windows 2000 then later on enhanced in XP and Vista, you need to know how to protect your data for future and make it easy to recover later on if any damage happens to it, even if your data is physically in wrong hands your data will be encrypted and hard to access. EFS uses DRA that decrypt files which were encrypted by users. In a network the domain admin is responsible of handling EFS in creating recovery policy for the other users.

This EFS feature works on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, it insures recovery of file even if the system is damaged or doesn`t boot or if the encryption key is manipulated. There are many software and services available for this purpose which assures data recovery for example: Advanced EFS Data Recovery 3.0 you can download it from http://www.tucows.com/preview/302285 Or http://www.elcomsoft.com/aefsdr.html.

Some other software similar to this are: Data Terminator 1.2.2 http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/downloads/efs_data_recovery_info/ Data Recovery Wizard http://www.easeus.com/datarecoverywizard/recover-encrypted-data.htm

Advanced EFS is capable of recovering data that has become impossible to access due to system admin errors & other reasons like format of hard disk or reinstallation of Windows. It recovers files protected with EFS efficiently consuming little time by scanning the sectors of hard disk, then locates the encrypted files, keys and after that it decrypts the files. It can recover data in worst conditions even if you don`t have a user login. There are 2 versions of Advanced EFS, Standard and Professional. Professional version can do additional tasks, it can also look for master keys sector to sector and deleted file scanning.