Re: locked by encryption

From: Steven L Umbach (sumbach55_at_ameritech.net)
Date: 11/15/03 

Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 16:34:42 GMT

If your computer was the member of a domain, you may be able to use the
recovery agent for the domain to decrypt the files. If not and since it
sounds like you did not back up your EFS certificate/key, then your only
hope is if you still have a copy of your old user profile either still on
the hard drive if you did not format for renstall or in a backup somewhere.
If you do have a copy and know the user password then you could contact
Microsoft Support for a tool they have that could possibly help. It would
not be a free call [probably around $250]. If your files are not encrypted
which can be verified with the cipher tool or looking at the folder advanced
attributes, you may just need to take ownership of the files while loged on
as an administrator. --- Steve

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;223316
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B255742
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;298009
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421 -- How to
take ownership.

"tee zee" <tznoc@msn.com> wrote in message
news:060301c3ab1f$f9579bb0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> *****please, if you have any knowledge of how to solve
> the following problem, please email me at the address
> above ^ ....:
> 1.)win2k-adv-srv o/s loaded on hdd.
> 2.)virus infection forced a reload of same o/s on same
> hdd.
> 3.)as new "administrator", attempted to open
> previous "administrator" account, (which had been
> slightly renamed), access is denied.
> 4.)key has been lost!
> 5.)very important financial and personal documents are
> now unaccessable.
> 6.)HELP!
> 7.)please email your responces to tznoc@msn.com

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