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by parameshst

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Hi..,

I had encrypted an excel file on a Windows 2000 Prof machine. It was stored on D drive.
Later without decrypted the file I formatted my c partition and installed win xp prof.
Now I am not to open the file - it says the file is encrypted.

How do I overcome this.

Thanks.
Parameshwar

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by rbrt

When you create and encrypt a file in a Windows 2000 environment, only the user that enabled encryption can access the file--except for the admin acct. You need to be logged in as the user that created this file (or the administrator)and since you are now using XP rather than 2000 Pro you can't access the file. You can try creating a non-encrypted file and then copying your encrypted file to that folder to see if it inherits that folders settings.

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