THAT approach relies on the local administrator being the default recovery agent for EFS. When the OS has been reinstalled, the new local administrator account is *not* the account that was recovery agent for the files when they were encrypted. There IS a workaround, but I think it involves exporting a particular certificate from the local administrator account BEFORE reinstalling the OS....
[My recommendation to people is that they ignore EFS unless they are using domain accounts, which will survive a local OS reinstall.] David Gillett > -----Original Message----- > From: stephen at unix dot za dot net [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: July 25, 2003 04:13 > To: Gerard Vignes > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: encrypted files to ntfs > > > > there is a way, it was covered in my MSCE course, havent had > to do it in 2 > years, so for the life of me cant remember exactly how.. > > it involves taking ownership of files and then decrypting, > sorry i cant > think off hand exactly how :/ i'll skim thru my msce book > over the w/e > > On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Gerard Vignes wrote: > > > Been There Done That > > > > My Net Admin told me "You should have backed up the key. > Without that, > > there is nothing you can do". > > > > I was able to recover (some stuff) from older, nonencrypted backups. > > > > > > >From: "sherban carlogea" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Subject: encrypted files to ntfs > > >Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 18:07:53 +0300 > > > > > >i have done a big mistake ...i have encrypted in windows > xp some personal > > >files ....and i was haing some troubles with window, and > reinstall it > > > > > >now, the big problem .. is their any way to recover my > crypted file ? > > > > > >mebus > > > > > > > > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------- > > > >------------------------------------------------------------- > --------------- > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* > > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------- > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------- > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------- > -------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------- > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
