Re: EFS nightmare
- From: "Twayne" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:27:31 -0400
In news:%23vhg0VhxKHA.5940@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
big country <someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed:
Hey all I have a WinXP SP2 workstation. It has an external
hard disk that is failing and there are some files that are
encrypted that we cant decrypt. So we cant move the files.
The user is not sure who initially encrypted the files but
the file shows an AD account that is specified as a data
recovery agent for that file. When I went to group policy
on the local machine there was not a EFS policy defined so
I created one with the data recovery account from AD. The
account shows a valid cert so I logged into the pc using
the data recovery account and I still cant decrypt the
file. Any thoughts?
If you can't locate the keys & certs that were used when the
data was encrypted, it's lost for good. Nothing you create now
will allow access to it, period. Hope you have backups if it's
important. MS did one thing right; their encryption structure
is unbeatable without a lot of time and money.
See help & support for EFS for more details; look for
certificate exports.
HTH,
Twayne`
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