Offline files and broken HDD

It is better to send this into a shop or have your local deskside support take care of it. I say this because of many recent attempts to try to obtain information illegally more recently on this site. There are ways of recovering data, and many of us know how to, but would hate for this information to fall into foolish hands.

Sorry, no real help here

Here is a link to Microsoft's description of the protection and recovery of offline files:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/support/dataprot.mspx

You may have difficulty in recovering the files if you cannot login into the laptop. Hopefully this situation has been considered in your IT procedures (DRP) of your company so that a copy of the encryption keys can be made available to you in this situation.

Muuten, onko Kouvolassa t?ll? hetkell? lunta?

You may need to get version 1.1 of the csscmd utility directly from Microsoft to move the folder from the broken HDD:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/884739

Here is link to a blog about fixing similar problems with this utility:

http://blogs.msdn.com/jonathanh/archive/2004/08/21/218463.aspx

Use this. You can access your files and use the software it includes to burn them to your laptop's CDRW, if you have one. If not, you can connect it to a network and transfer the files over. It uses its own OS and software so as long as it sees your files, you have many options using CD burning software, the Internet, etc. to retrieve them.
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/