Windows private folder option decryption

["Jon Lawhead" <samurai () berkeley edu>]

Hey all,

I work as a tech, and I have a problem that I haven't encountered before, and am looking for 
ideas.  I have a client who attempted to upgrade the drivers for his graphics card, but somehow 
botched it and now his computer won't boot into windows.  I would generally fix the problem by 
booting into Knoppix, but he's encrypted all his files using the Windows private folder option in 
XP, so that doesn't work.  Does anyone know of any tools and/or procedures that I could use to get 
around this, either by decrypting the files via knoppix or by any other means.  If I can't find 
anything, I'm going to be forced to tell him to just reformat, which I don't want to do.  Thanks 
for your help!


Jon Lawhead
UC Berkeley SINE/ResComp