This function allows you to restore keys that you have previously archived. You will need to use this if your PC experiences a hard drive or TPM security chip failure, or if you transfer your secure data and applications to a new PC. If your hard drive is intact or once you have restored your hard drive by reinstalling your secure applications and copying back the secured data, you will click Restore, point to your archive file, and enter the archive password to restore the TPM keys.

If you have saved passwords to your TCG Security Password Vault, these will also be restored along with your keys rendering the need to remember or re-save passwords a thing of the past. If you are restoring keys to a newly installed EMBASSY Security Center, please initialize the user prior to performing the restore for optimum performance.

If your PC has multiple users of the TPM, each user must restore his/her keys.

Steps to Restore your TPM Keys

1. Start the EMBASSY Security Center and select Archive and Restore (as shown in Figure 3.75) then click on Restore.
2. This will start the Restore process by prompting you to enter the location where your keys are stored store the (as shown in Figure 3.80). Select the location and click OK to continue.
3. You will now be prompted to enter the archive password (see Figure 3.81). Depending on what you chose when you created your archive, this may be your Master Password or the password you created when you archived the keys.
4. When the restore procedure is completed you will see a message stating so as shown in Figure 3.82.

Figure 3.80: Select Restore location

Figure 3.81: Enter Archive Password to Restore

Figure 3.82: Restore Complete