HOW TO: Share Access to an Encrypted File in Windows XP

[pammi]

My Win-Xp hard-disk crashed, and now I can't boot from
this hard-disk. But the disk is readable when I add it in
as a secondary disk on another PC.
My problem now is that I am being denied access to some
encrypted folders in the original disk. I tried adding
user, tried giving permission from the
properties->security option, but noting works.

Is there a way to recover these files?

 

[Darren Hook [MSFT]]

Files are encrypted through the use of algorithms which essentially
re-arrange, scramble and encode the data. A key pair is randomly generated
when you encrypt your first file. This key pair is comprised of a private
and a public key. The key pair is used to encode and decode the encrypted
files. If the key pair is lost or damaged and you have not designated a
recovery agent then there is no way to recover the data. There is no
workaround to this.

223316.KB.EN-US Best Practices for the Encrypting File System
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;223316

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