Re: EFS problem
- From: "Shenan Stanley" <newshelper@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 13:29:52 -0500
Rick S. Martin wrote:
A friend of mine encrypted a folder full of photos under win XP on a
non-system disk.
It was an older computer, so she had recently sold it to a friend,
the data drive she kept for herself.
The data hard drive is now used as an external drive and she cant
access the photos folder photos!
Is there a way to get those photos back? I mean, some software or
any professional service perhaps?
I ran a search, but came out empty handed...
If she actually used EFS (and followed the best practices for said use) -
then she can use her backed up certificate/key to recover access to the
files.
If she did not - and the friend/her has not formatted the old system and the
user account she encrypted the data with still exists (unchanged) on the
original system - she can hook the drive to it and decrypt.
Otherwise... No.
Best practices for the Encrypting File System
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223316/
How to back up the recovery agent Encrypting File System (EFS) private key
in Windows Server 2003, in Windows 2000, and in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/241201
Using Efsinfo.exe to determine information about encrypted files
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/243026/
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