Re: EFS Problem

From: David Cross [MS] (dcross@online.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/02/03 

From: "David Cross [MS]" <dcross@online.microsoft.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 08:39:57 -0800

Product Support Services from Microsoft can help you recover data in
scenarios like this if you still have your old user profile on your machine.
Open a support call and they can walk you through possible steps to recover
your data. 

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"Phil Kline" <grouper@kline.to> wrote in message
news:eqJgev93CHA.2252@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> I am watching your situation.  I need to learn about EFS as well.  I did
an
> upgrade to Win XP PRO after my WIN 2000 PRO locked up.  I had the disc for
a
> year but reasoned why install WIN 2000 over again as I had the new OS.
> Probably a bad time to do a migration but I did.
>
> The machine is free standing.  I had encrypted some of my files for
security
> reasons.  The migration went well but somehow I wound up with both OSs on
> the machine.
>
> MS helped me through some minor concerns.  I asked if the WINNT directory
> could be safely deleted and they said yes.  After I was satisified with
the
> migration. I deleted it (duh).  Well sure enough when I went to open some
of
> the encrypted files they wouldn't open.
>
> I didn't even know what EFS was nor did I know to save a key/certificate
> elsewhere, etc.  So now I have 700 important files I can't access.  I was
> able to recover the security file of the WINNT directory by running a
> recovery program but am not sure what to do next.  I thought of copying
the
> files to a a machine on the WIN 2000 PRO network at work and then trying
to
> gain control over them by logging on as the Administrator profile but
> believe I will probably have to import the whole security folder recovered
> form the deleted WINNT directory.
>
> Any thoughts, suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Phil
>
> Peter K." <pmdatabase@yahoo.ca> wrote in message
> news:chko5vs1oqkfsl5j2facv8cu5ne5dn5943@4ax.com...
> > I am trying to learn EFS.
> >
> > I encrypt a file as a user on a workstation. Copy the file to the
> > server and log in as Domain Administrator. I have full rights on the
> > file, and the owners are domain\administrator and
> > domain\administrators. Efsinfo \u says that domain\administrator is
> > the recovery agent, but I cannot access the file -i.e., open it or
> > remove the encryption.
> >
> > One thing that was a bit non-standard. This was not the first server
> > in the domain. It has already been retired. When I opened a
> > Certificates  MMC there was no certificates in Personal ->
> > Certificates. However, the Domain Security Policy had an account for
> > Administrator in the Encrypted Data Folder which I exported, then
> > imported into the Certificates MMC. I don't know if that has anything
> > to do with the situation or not.
> >
> > Did I miss something, and where do I go from here? All ideas and
> > assistance appreciated.
> >
> > Peter
>
>

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