damaged encrypted folder

[Guest]

somehow my encrypted folder got damaged and I can not read the folder any
longer "access denied"

any ideas?

 

[Malke]

somehow my encrypted folder got damaged and I can not read the folder any
longer "access denied"

any ideas?

Please provide a better description of your computer, the encryption used,
and the problem. Are you referring to XP Pro's EFS? Did you back up your
encryption key?

Here is a link that will show you what details you need to include in your
next post in order to get focused troubleshooting:

http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm

Malke

 

[Steven L Umbach]

Verify that you have NTFS permissions to the folder/files. You need at least
read/list/execute/write permissions to encrypt and decrypt files and if you
are a member of any group that has deny permissions to the folder that could
explain the problem. Beyond that if the problem is with not being able to
decrypt the files a common problem is due to reinstalling the operating
system, exporting and deleting your EFS private key, other problems with
your EFS private key, or having your user password "reset" by an
administrator rather than changed where you first need to enter the old
password. --- Steve

 

[Guest]

Please find below restatement of my problem:
I am running WinXP with SP2 and I had setup encryption on one of my folders
Unfortunately something must have gotten corrupted as I can no longer access
the folder. When I attempt to access the folder I get “access denied†error
I have old copies of the registry but they are under the encrypted folder
and so I can not access them either.

I have trying booting in Safe mode but that did not help. I have also run a
checkdisk but that did not solve my problem either

Does anyone have any ideas on how to proceed?

If there are no readily available tools is anyone aware of a reputable
company I may turn to for assistance?

 

[Kerry Brown]

Did you reinstall Windows? Did you force a password change?

 

[Guest]

I have been able to restore the following files can I do anything with hem
that may help me?

01/16/2005 11:46 PM 22,512 ComDb.Dat
04/07/2005 09:50 PM 36 domain.txt
04/07/2005 09:50 PM 24,576 REGISTRY_MACHINE_SAM
04/07/2005 09:50 PM 40,960 REGISTRY_MACHINE_SECURITY
04/07/2005 09:50 PM 266,240 REGISTRY_USER_.DEFAULT
01/17/2005 12:42 PM 262,144 REGISTRY_USER_NTUSER_S-1-5-18
04/07/2005 09:50 PM 237,568 REGISTRY_USER_NTUSER_S-1-5-19
04/07/2005 09:50 PM 237,568 REGISTRY_USER_NTUSER_S-1-5-20
04/07/2005 09:50 PM 0
REGISTRY_USER_NTUSER_S-1-5-21-823518204-1606980848-839522115-1003
04/07/2005 09:50 PM 8,192 REGISTRY_USER_USRCLASS_S-1-5-19
04/07/2005 09:50 PM 8,192 REGISTRY_USER_USRCLASS_S-1-5-20
04/07/2005 09:50 PM 8,192
REGISTRY_USER_USRCLASS_S-1-5-21-823518204-1606980848-839522115-1003