I use W2K Pro at home on a DELL XPS-500 PC with two hard drives. One 9G and the other 20G. Up until recently I had two accounts running on it, one for me and one for my wife (who now has her own laptop). In the spirit of learning and experimentationI locked down my two document folders on D: (the second HD) using MMC Security Policy snapins. Everything worked fine. Fine that is until I ran out of room on my C:\ drive and decided to rebuild it to remove my Win 98 partition (which I never reallyused) and make one big C:\ partition out of many smaller ones on the 9G HD. During the rebuild I placed all my other folders on the D:\ for easy backup and recovery purposes. However I forgot that I locked down those two document folders when I proceeded to rebuild my C:\. Everything worked fine until I went to recover the files from those two folders and found out that the encryption bit was set and nothing I tried could clear it. Now the files are locked down so even I, using the administrator account, can’t get at them no matter what I try. I’ll give 2000 points to anyone who can help me clear the encryption bit on these two folders and their files. I have tried numerous NTFS and MMC security settings but to no avail. I need those documents back.