decryption-add recovery agent

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I am running XP Pro and had a secondary harddrive that was encrypted- for all my video and audio media: everything OK. Then I got the BSOD and had to reformatt my primary drive; and re-install XP . Now I cannot open second drive files; I can access drive and see all files, but trying to open them---> access denied! I tried to add a recovery agent- I am the administrator, but wizard is asking me for *.cer files. I have encrypted and decrypted other files since; in an effort to generate cer public/private keys to import retroactive to secondary hard drive to ulock the files. Any hints??

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Your data is most likely gone forever:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/Encrypt.htm

--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
An easier way to read newsgroup messages:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/using/newsgroups/setup.asp
http://dts-l.org/index.html

I am running XP Pro and had a secondary harddrive that was

encrypted- for all my video and audio media: everything OK. Then I got
the BSOD and had to reformatt my primary drive; and re-install XP .
Now I cannot open second drive files; I can access drive and see all
files, but trying to open them---> access denied! I tried to add a
recovery agent- I am the administrator, but wizard is asking me for
*.cer files. I have encrypted and decrypted other files since; in an
effort to generate cer public/private keys to import retroactive to
secondary hard drive to ulock the files. Any hints??

 

[Roger Abell]

Adding a recovery agent after the fact will not help recover
the lost access, but it would help you for the future.
You generate the needed files with the /r option to cipher.exe
start / run cipher.exe /? should guide you

If you cannot restore the old OS, and you have no full copy
of the profile of the old encrypting (not a new recreated one)
account, and you did not export and save the key from the old
account, and you were not in an uplevel domain, then your
files are lost

--
Roger Abell
Microsoft MVP (Windows Server System: Security)
MCSE (W2k3,W2k,Nt4) MCDBA

I am running XP Pro and had a secondary harddrive that was encrypted- for

all my video and audio media: everything OK. Then I got the BSOD and had to
reformatt my primary drive; and re-install XP . Now I cannot open second
drive files; I can access drive and see all files, but trying to open
them---> access denied! I tried to add a recovery agent- I am the
administrator, but wizard is asking me for *.cer files. I have encrypted and
decrypted other files since; in an effort to generate cer public/private
keys to import retroactive to secondary hard drive to ulock the files. Any
hints??