Encryption Lockout

[David D. Pettyjohn]

The motherboard on my Desktop fried. So I am trying to recover the files to
my laptop and external USB drives. Unfortunately I had used the Windows NT
encryption, which lets only the user that encrypted the files view them. I
will never use Windows encryption again, I'll stick with AxCrypt for what I
need.
I have the drives in an external USB drive carrier and I can see all the
files and transfer, or use, the ones that weren't encrypted. However, when
I try to do anything with the encrypted files I get an access is denied
error. I have tried changing my log in name and the name of the computer so
that they are the same as the desktop user to no avail. I disabled
"Security Accounts Manager" and that didn't do any good either. Does anyone
have any hope?
David D. Pettyjohn

 

[Ricky]

This tells how to decrypt a file but if you didn't export the certificate
and key and put them in a safe place they're gone for good.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308993/en-us

 

[Blades]

You know, there was a topic just like this in the ms.p.xp.security_admin
newsgroup yesterday. I'd provide a link, but I'm lazy. Instead, I'll
just quote Jupiter Jones [MVP], the guy who gave the answer:

Take Ownership, #9 on this link:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/adsecurity.htm

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

That does not apply in this case, this is different.
Taking Ownership is not enough if the data is encrypted.
In the case of the OP here, this link is more appropriate:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/encrypt.htm

 

[Blades]

Yes, I apologize, I should have mentioned that he should follow link #5
and not #9.