Re: What _does_ EFS stand for?

From: Roger Abell [MVP] (mvpNOSPAM@asu.edu)
Date: 12/04/02 

From: "Roger Abell [MVP]" <mvpNOSPAM@asu.edu>
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 07:40:49 -0700

When you said that you "backed up the entire disk" if you
meant that you used the NTbackup utility to back up the
whole system with the system state option included then
you do have a route to recover the files by restoring the
old system. Otherwise you are likely out of luck, per the
post of David Cross. 

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Roger Abell
MS MVP (Security, Windows), MCDBA,  MCSE both
Associate Expert - Windows XP ExpertZone
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
"Chris Perigo" <chrisperigo@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:064d01c29b82$50e7d6a0$d5f82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA12...
> Greetings All,
>
> I upgraded my PC from Win ME to XP pro some months back.
> (Machine is on home network using workgroups).
>
> Shortly thereafter I decided to convert my filesystem
> from FAT32 to NTFS so as to explore the new possibilities
> available etc.
>
> Ended up with the dreaded 512kb cluster size which
> brought the machine's performance to its knees (ankles
> actually) and causes _massive_ levels of fragmentation
> for reasons which I appreciate.
>
> Whilst nosing round at new options available I rather
> foolishly encrypted the My documents folder in my login
> account. Then tried logging in as another user to see if
> they could access them. They could - oh well forget it
> then.....
>
> Recently got a new laptop which gave me the empty disc
> space required to back up the entire disc so having done
> so I bravely reformatted my disc which had the desired
> effect of creating a (default) 4096kb cluster size. Then
> reinstalled XP and yes performance does seem to have
> improved significantly again.
>
> Then reinstated the documents and settings hierachy for
> all users. Job's a good un.................??
>
> As most of you no doubt already appreciate this now
> leaves everyone except me happy as larry. I, however, had
> completely forgotten my documents were all previously
> encrypted so now cannot access anything. (*LOTS* of work).
>
> Spent 2 days chasing my arse round the help files etc
> relating to efs, mmc, recovery agents, certificates etc
> and now realise that *nothing* I now do on the machine (I
> made myself a DRA) can retrieve the data. eek.
>
> However, because I had backed up _the entire_ machine
> prior to the reformat, I am still fairly hopeful that I
> can get my data back. Just don't know what I would
> require to do.
>
> Can any of you bright sparks inform me:-
>
> 1) Will I be able to recover my data?
>
> 2) How to go about it?
>
> Thanks to anyone who can help.
>
> ....so what does EFS stand for (apart from the obvious)
> etremely ******* stupid? (I'll leave the f to you
> imagination!!)
>
> Cheers
>
> Chris Perigo
> [Bloke who _thought_ he new something about computers]

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