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Windows 2000 Encrypted Folder System

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by steve.chung

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Dear Sir / Madam,

I have a laptop with windows 2000 installed, with 2 partitions c & d. C has win2k operating system and D simply a data partition. Both formatted in NTFS.

One day, my computer crash and I decide to put windows xp on it, but Iforgot that I have an encrypted folder on D partition. so after I formatted the c partition and installed windows xp on it. I can't access my folder on the D partition. What can I do to overcome this, so that I can access my folder on D partition. It always give the "Access Denied" message.

Thanking you in advnace for your assistant.

Steve Chung
steve.chung@team.telstra.com

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by parbo

Sorry Bud, you probably won't like this answer. I havent yet heard of a utlity that can break the security code for this operation. Microsoft especially designed this for security reasons. If a user encrypts a folder, only that user can read it. it is based off the SID (security ID)and since the system is reloaded the SID has changed. Sorry again to say but I dont think you can access the data in that folder

by njeddiek

The only way you can get access to your folder is to reinstall the original os. Then use your last full backup. Hopefully you backed up your system state. The real question here is the encrypted files worth doing all of that?

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