Re: EFS won't let Admin recover files

From: Robert Gu [MS] (robertg@online.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/25/02 

From: "Robert Gu [MS]" <robertg@online.microsoft.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 13:38:47 -0700

Did you UPGRADE the win2k to XP or just reinstall the XP over an existing
Win2K?

Upgrading should not cause you losing your EFS files.

Which Win2K you want to export the recovery cert? It helps you nothing to
get back your files if the Win2K is not the original OS you have with the
EFS files. Differenent installation of Win2K has different recovery cert.
You said your Win2K was upgraded to XP. I would assume the useful
installation of Win2K is gone. 

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Robert Gu [MS Security Developer]
"Roger Andrews" <roger@predatorsystems.com> wrote in message
news:124d701c21c78$004b8e00$19ef2ecf@tkmsftngxa01...
> Just an update.  WinXP is looking for a .cer certificate
> and all I can export from win 2000 is a .pfx
> certificate.  There does not seem to be any recovery
> agent certificates in Winxp.  I followed all the
> instructions.  I must be missing something. (I am logged
> in as an administator.)
> >-----Original Message-----
> >I Upgraded to windows XP from 2000.  I forgot I had some
> >encrypted files and after the installation I could not
> >get into them.  I tried using the recovery agent,
> >following MS instructions but Windows XP says that it
> >needs a *.cer file to intall the recovery agent.  I have
> >tried using the *.pfx files from other win 2000 machines
> >with no luck.
> >
> >Where does the *.cer file that winXP is looking for get
> >generated from.
> >
> >I'm desperate.  It would have been nice to know that
> when
> >upgrading to winxp, the old encryption would be written
> >out.  I made a mistake, yes it was my fault for not
> >looking into it further but now....HELP!
> >
> >Thanks
> >.
> >

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