Re: EFS Recovery

From: David Cross [MS] (dcross@online.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/29/02 

From: "David Cross [MS]" <dcross@online.microsoft.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 06:11:08 -0800

If your machine is in a workgroup and you did not export the certificate and
private key of the user or the recovery agent, then the answer = no. 

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"DIANA TURNER" <dazz3@iprimus.com.au> wrote in message
news:3de76b08_1@news.iprimus.com.au...
> My hard drive died on me the other day, I bought a new one and installed a
> fresh copy of windows 2000 professional.
> I'm trying to restore some files i had saved on a backup drive but they
were
> encrypted on the old installation and i didnt export my certificates prior
> to this happening (yes i know i should have but i didn't think this would
> happen blah blah..)
> Is there any way I can get these files back?
> I have the whole directory structure of the old drive on the backup
> (everything but the system state)
>
> Thanks for your time
>
> noel
>
>

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