Did you reinstall Windows? If not, are you using the same account/password combination you had before the crash?
Cheers Ken -----Original Message----- From: Greg Page [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 23 February 2008 8:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: EFS and decrypting files I recently experienced a system crash, I had encrypted files stored on a drive separate from the drive that had Windows XP SP2 on it, now I can't seem to gain access to the encrypted files. All I can do is see file names in the folders, but I cannot access the data in any way, shape or form. Is there any way to decrypt these files? I have tried using cipher.exe with appropriate switches, but continually get "Access Denied" messages. Both the original certificate and data recovery agent used in the encryption were lost in the crash and applying new ones gives me the denied message. Am I up the creek? TIA Greg ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
