EFS encrypted files

[Waleed Akleh]

Hello,
I have some encrypted files on my D:\ , I formatted it C:\ forgetting about
the encrypted files, after i reinstalled the windows XP I can’t seem to
access those file "Access denied". Is there any program or way to access
those files?
Waleed Akleh.

 

[Technobard]

Are you part of a domain?
In Windows XP and beyond, the user's RSA private key is backed up
using an offline public key whose matching private key is stored in
one of two places: the password reset disk (if Windows XP is not a
member of a domain) or in the Active Directory (if Windows XP is a
member of a domain).

Files encrypted with EFS can only be decrypted by using the RSA
private key(s) matching the previously-used public key(s). The stored
copy of the user's private key is ultimately protected by the user's
logon password. Accessing encrypted files from outside Windows with
other operating systems (Linux, for example, or even another instance
of Windows) is not possible -- not least of which because there is
currently no third party EFS component driver. Further, using special
tools to reset the user's login password will render it impossible to
decrypt the user's private key and thus useless for gaining access to
the user's encrypted files.


excelsior

 

[Lem]

Hello,
I have some encrypted files on my D:\ , I formatted it C:\ forgetting about
the encrypted files, after i reinstalled the windows XP I can’t seem to
access those file "Access denied". Is there any program or way to access
those files?
Waleed Akleh.

See the answers to your earlier posting of this question.

--
Lem -- MS-MVP - Networking

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[GreenieLeBrun]

Hello,
I have some encrypted files on my D:\ , I formatted it C:\ forgetting
about the encrypted files, after i reinstalled the windows XP I can't
seem to access those file "Access denied". Is there any program or
way to access those files?
Waleed Akleh.

No.

The Encrypting File System
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/topics/cryptographyetc/efs.mspx

Best practices for the Encrypting File System
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223316/en-us

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

How To Encrypt a Folder in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=308989

How To Remove File Encryption in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=308993

How To Encrypt a File in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=307877

 

[VanguardLH]

in message

Hello,
I have some encrypted files on my D:\ , I formatted it C:\
forgetting about
the encrypted files, after i reinstalled the windows XP I can’t
seem to
access those file "Access denied". Is there any program or way to
access
those files?
Waleed Akleh.

Same answers to your same post submitted all of 3 hours earlier. Go
read them.