Help with encryption

[Dharmendra Sant]

Thanks in advance for your assistance.
I have all my personal files encrypted on a separate hd on
my home pc. The OS(Windows XP PRO) resides with
applications on my primary drive. My primary drive died on
me so I replaced it and reinstalled XP and the
applications I have. My problem now is that it will not
let me access my encrypted files. How do I get XP to allow
me access to them.I tried making a backup of them and
restoring to a FAT 32 harddrive however it restored all my
word and tax files as zero byte files rendering them
useless.
thanks again
Mendra

 

[Peter Ericson]

Thanks in advance for your assistance.
I have all my personal files encrypted on a separate hd on
my home pc. The OS(Windows XP PRO) resides with
applications on my primary drive. My primary drive died on
me so I replaced it and reinstalled XP and the
applications I have. My problem now is that it will not
let me access my encrypted files. How do I get XP to allow
me access to them.I tried making a backup of them and
restoring to a FAT 32 harddrive however it restored all my
word and tax files as zero byte files rendering them
useless.
thanks again
Mendra

Hello,

As far as I know, there is no way of decrypting files that were
encrypted with Windows XP's built-in encryption feature if you cannot
log in with the user who originally encrypted them. Since you now have a
new installation of XP, it won't work. Not even creating a user with the
same name as the user who encrypted the files will work. I believe that
your files are lost, unless someone else in this newsgroup has any
suggestions.

*-------=== Peter Ericson ===-------*
peter[AT]pericson[DOT]com
http://www.pericson.com/
*-----------------------------------*

 

[Peter Clark]

just how dead is you primary drive?
may help:
http://www.beginningtoseethelight.org/efsrecovery/

-----Original Message-----

Thanks in advance for your assistance.
I have all my personal files encrypted on a separate hd on
my home pc. The OS(Windows XP PRO) resides with
applications on my primary drive. My primary drive died on
me so I replaced it and reinstalled XP and the
applications I have. My problem now is that it will not
let me access my encrypted files. How do I get XP to allow
me access to them.I tried making a backup of them and
restoring to a FAT 32 harddrive however it restored all my
word and tax files as zero byte files rendering them
useless.
thanks again
Mendra

Hello,

As far as I know, there is no way of decrypting files that were
encrypted with Windows XP's built-in encryption feature if you cannot
log in with the user who originally encrypted them. Since you now have a
new installation of XP, it won't work. Not even creating a user with the
same name as the user who encrypted the files will work. I believe that
your files are lost, unless someone else in this newsgroup has any
suggestions.

*-------=== Peter Ericson ===-------*
peter[AT]pericson[DOT]com
http://www.pericson.com/
*-----------------------------------*

.

 

[Dharmendra Sant]

Primary drive is dead to the point it will not spin up.

-----Original Message-----
just how dead is you primary drive?
may help:
http://www.beginningtoseethelight.org/efsrecovery/

-----Original Message-----


Hello,

As far as I know, there is no way of decrypting files

that

were
encrypted with Windows XP's built-in encryption feature

if
you cannot

log in with the user who originally encrypted them.

Since
you now have a

new installation of XP, it won't work. Not even

creating a
user with the

same name as the user who encrypted the files will

work. I
believe that

your files are lost, unless someone else in this

newsgroup
has any

suggestions.

*-------=== Peter Ericson ===-------*
peter[AT]pericson[DOT]com
http://www.pericson.com/
*-----------------------------------*

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