Re: Problems with encrypted folder
- From: Bruce Chambers <bchambers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 13:24:06 -0700
Pablo Cesar wrote:
People...i beg for help!!!
I have a disk with an installation of windows xp that belongs to a machine
that is not working anymore, so i buy a new machine, installed windows xp
and try to acces the information under my user in C:\Documents and
Settings\MyUserName but i get "access denied"...i thing this is due i marked
this folder as private when i was using that Windows....i tried to boot from
the old thisk in the new machine but i cann't do it, i only get blue screens
telling me that something failled....what can i do? the information there is
vital for me.
Is the data actually encrypted, as your subject line suggests? If so, and if the your encryption certificates and keys were not backed up before placing the hard drive in the new computer, and the workstation isn't part of a domain, those files are gone, for all practical purposes. Encryption works well and there is no "back door" or hack to access the files. (Wouldn't be much point to EFS if it were vulnerable.)
If you hadn't actually encrypted the data files (and marking a folder private is something completely different from encryption), you may be facing nothing more than a simple permissions issue. Have you tried taking ownership of the old folders?
HOW TO Take Ownership of a File or Folder in WinXP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q308421
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