Hello All, I am new to the list, and a rookie MCSE. This is my first real post to the list. I am using Win2K Pro as administrator. Here's the problem:
Last night I had powered down my PC when I accidentally bumped the keyboard, firing it back up. I didn't want to wait for the logon screen to power back down, so I pressed the power button. Nothing. So I powered off on the back of the box. Today, when I powered up, the OS no longer had the modem installed. I got a "detect new pci communications device" screen. Ok fine. I'll just reinstall the drivers. But that wouldn't work. The OS couldn't find the drivers even though I was pointing it right at the correct ones. So I decided to use this as a learning experience. I decided to try a repair from CD with an emergency repair disk. Ironically, I had just created the ERD anew two days ago. So I did the repair from CD with the ERD. All seemed to go well. Well. I have six logical drives on my hard drive. C through I. E is the cdrom. C is FAT. F, G, & H are NTFS. D and I are FAT32. On G I had one folder named DATA encrypted with EFS. I cannot remember if I chose the "encrypt all subfolders and files" option or not. I don't think I did. I think I just encrypted the parent folder. At the time I encrypted, but before I encrypted, I created a certificates MMC and named it EFS.msc. This contained the two certificates, File Recovery and EFS, in the personal store. I exported them both to a floppy. Then I saved this EFS MMC to that DATA folder. Then I encrypted the DATA folder. I have been accessing the DATA folder's files just fine for two months. After this repair from CD with ERD today however, I cannot access any of the files in the DATA folder. So, I decided to try and learn something else, data recovery. So the next thing I did was read the Help on how to decrypt folder/files if one is a data recovery agent. I followed the procedure to the letter I think. Remember I am the administrator with the two original keys safely tucked away on the floppy. First, I imported the two original certificates mentioned above, File Recovery and EFS, from the floppy to a new MMC, which I saved on my desktop, again as EFS.msc I backed up the DATA folder and all contents to the C drive (FAT). Then I did it again to the H drive (NTFS). Then, I did a restore of the C drive backup to the C drive, and a restore of the H drive backup to the H drive. The reason I did two complete backups and restores is I thought maybe it made a difference between FAT and NTFS. Anyway. The restore to the C drive was not complete. It only restored 5MB out of 13MB. All the folders, subfolders, and file names were there. But when I opened a Word 2000 file for example, it was blank. The filename was there, but it had 0 bytes in it. The restore to the H drive restored completely. All megabytes accounted for. But guess what? I still cannot access the files. Access denied. What is the problem, folks? How do recover this data in the DATA folder that I encrypted with EFS. I have the original certificates on floppy. What am I doing wrong? Could someone please step me through this carefully, as if I am an idiot, which apparently I am. I really need to get at the DATA folder and all its subfolders and files. Thanks in advance. And if you wouldn't mind doing a cc to me here at [EMAIL PROTECTED] in addition to the list, I would appreciate it. Greg ------ You are subscribed as [email protected] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
