TSGL: encryption question

[Craig]

Thanks, Russ. I'll see if she'll give it a try.

Russell W. Coover wrote:
> Or perhaps you can find a FAT32 formatted hard drive (from an old Win 98
> machine or a rare XP). XP will read FAT32 partitions and if you add an old
> FAT32 drive to an XP machine as a slave and copy the file to it, you should
> be able to read the formally encrypted file. 
>
> Russ Coover
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On
> Behalf Of Craig
> Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2008 7:03 PM
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> Subject: Re: TSGL: encryption question
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> My understanding is that it's just one folder on her external USB hard 
> drive that she had encrypted. Even after reformatting her C: drive, she 
> has access to the external, she can add and remove ordinary files and 
> folders, she just can't open the encrypted folder. Since the reformat, 
> her security certificates are all new numbers, & therefore won't work to 
> decrypt the folder. People who encrypt are supposed to write down those 
> numbers.
>
> Now I find from the MS Help & Support Center:
>
> Files retain their encrypted property until explicitly decrypted or 
> moved to a non-NTFS volume. Similarly, renaming an encrypted file does 
> not alter its encrypted status.
>
> I'm not sure yet if Linux is an answer here, but I have yet to research 
> that one. I will definitely ask her about backups. An old registry 
> backup would have that key in it, I think. But I don't think she'd be 
> willing to reformat again, or even if she deems this encrypted folder as 
> important as I now do.
>
> sign me, trying to be a good uncle,
> Craig
>
> Alan Mitchell wrote:
>   
>> Just a thought. Does a backup from any time exist? Or, if this is a
>>     
> manufactured system with recovery disk it may be possible to recreate the
> original environment. I'd probably try on as close to a new duplicate disk
> as I could find and not screw with the rebuilt disk.
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: "Craig" <crtrav at charter.net>
>> To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" <list at tsgserver.com>
>> Sent: 3/8/08 5:51 PM
>> Subject: Re: TSGL: encryption question
>>
>> The forums seem to show the same question asked, but no direct answers. 
>> The kicker for me was the Microsoft site that warns, "NOTE: If you do 
>> not have access to a Recovery Agent's account with a valid recovery key, 
>> you cannot recover the data. There is no workaround in EFS." And since 
>> my niece reformatted her C: drive, that 40 digit key was lost. I'll 
>> report to her that the data is probably gone forever.
>>
>> Thank you to all who helped me with this problem. You furnished a lot of 
>> interesting reading. This List is such a fabulous resource!
>>
>> Craig
>>
>>
>>
>> Craig wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> I received this email from a family member,
>>>
>>> I have some protected files (mainly my pictures and home videos) on my 
>>> external hard drive, then I had to reformat my hard drive but I forgot 
>>> to unprotect these files on my external.  Now I can't open these files.  
>>> How can I unprotect them?  I know there has to be a way! it's on a usb, 
>>> it's a seagate. I just used the regular windows protection. for 
>>> instance, many of the files are .jpg, so I right click on the file, then 
>>> properties, then I click attributes: advanced, then encrypt contents to 
>>> secure data. sometimes I have access to the details button which shows 
>>> who has access to the file. my old computer name and certificate are 
>>> listed from before the reformat. now my certificate is a totally 
>>> different number (I checked). anyway, what can I do? all of emma's 
>>> beautiful pictures are frozen!
>>>
>>>
>>> Am I right by telling her that they are lost? It's XPSP2
>>>
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