Karl
Sat Mar 19 07:10:13 CST 2005
Agreed.
The best web site on this is at www.beginningtoseethelight.org However,
unless you are willing to spend at least hundreds of dollars US on file
recovery, you do need to have at least the user profiles from the
c:\documents and settings\ folder from the version of Windows that was used
to encrypt the files. Unless the computer is in a Windows domain, which can
change things.
Using any form of encryption is a good way to lose your data forever. You
always need to back up your encryption keys, whether the solution is
Microsoft, PGP, etc. Windows online help on EFS points you to the need to
do this and tells you how.
"Steven L Umbach" <n9rou@nospam-comcast.net> wrote in message
news:OcJo3L%23KFHA.568@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> If you can be more specific maybe someone here can help including version
of
> the operating system and if it is a domain computer or not. To recover EFS
> files you will at least need the user's or Recovery Agent's [if any which
is
> mandatory for W2K] EFS private key that were used on the EFS files. They
are
> normally stored in the user's profile or could also be backed up to a
> password protected .pfx file if the user ever backed them up. The utility
> efsinfo will show what user and Recovery Agent can decrypt EFS file. Often
> corruption of the user's profile or a reinstall of the operating system
will
> cause a user to lose access to EFS files. --- Steve
>
>
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;223316 --- EFS
best
> practices
>
> "Michael Jennings" <Michael Jennings@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:757DD467-466D-4CE0-A92F-E36932A09E5A@microsoft.com...
> >I cannot find a web page that shows how to recover EFS encrypted files on
> > another computer.
> >
> >
>
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