Re: EFS -- Encrypting File System -- File recovery on another computer

From: Karl Levinson, mvp (levinson_k_at_despammed.com)
Date: 03/19/05 

Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 08:12:45 -0500

BTW if you do have the user profile folders and the instructions at
www.beginningtoseethelight.org are too complicated, you can call Microsoft
phone support and they have procedures that can help do the same thing.
Phone numbers for support are at www.microsoft.com/support and the cost
might be from $80 to $300.

"Steven L Umbach" <n9rou@nospam-comcast.net> wrote in message
news:OcJo3L%23KFHA.568@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> If you can be more specific maybe someone here can help including version
of
> the operating system and if it is a domain computer or not. To recover EFS
> files you will at least need the user's or Recovery Agent's [if any which
is
> mandatory for W2K] EFS private key that were used on the EFS files. They
are
> normally stored in the user's profile or could also be backed up to a
> password protected .pfx file if the user ever backed them up. The utility
> efsinfo will show what user and Recovery Agent can decrypt EFS file. Often
> corruption of the user's profile or a reinstall of the operating system
will
> cause a user to lose access to EFS files. --- Steve
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;223316 --- EFS
best
> practices
>
> "Michael Jennings" <Michael Jennings@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:757DD467-466D-4CE0-A92F-E36932A09E5A@microsoft.com...
> >I cannot find a web page that shows how to recover EFS encrypted files on
> > another computer.
> >
> >
>
>

Relevant Pages

  • Re: WIN2000 Encrypted Folders & Administrator Profile
    ... If you know the password to the old administrator account and have the old profile ... The EFS private keys used are stored in the ... profile of the user and Recovery Agent for those files. ...
    (microsoft.public.win2000.security)
  • Re: EFS Disabling
    ... > I had to reinstall XP on a computer and so I copied my EFS ... Each time you create a user account, a new SID gets ... instances of Windows NT/2000/XP. ... in your profile directory. ...
    (microsoft.public.security)
  • Re: Encryted Data recovered from failed hard drive
    ... Your keys and certs are in the profile dir. ... Once you have your backed up cert+keys, you can open all your EFS ... files encrypted with the cert as long as the files are not damaged. ... Start->Help should have the info to guide you through how to backup your EFS ...
    (microsoft.public.win2000.security)
  • Re: RE:file encryption
    ... The private keys that are used to decrypt EFS files are stored in the user ... profile and local administrator profile and available to export ... not have backup copies of your EFS encryption keys or user profiles at a time ...
    (microsoft.public.win2000.security)
  • Re: LSASS.EXE process consuming 100% CPU time
    ... the other target computer using a LAN connection. ... had also EFS active in the targed computer user profile). ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin)
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