Comments for How can I recover files encrypted with Windows filesystem encryption?

Comment from Oliver Galea on 2007-10-29

2007-10-29T13:09:15Z

There is a method that you did not even suggest and it is so simple that you would freak. True security on any computer is very difficult too acheive (not imposible) You can talk to the security experts to find out how simple it is.
I do this on a regular basis and I do not want to give it away.

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Comment from ena on 2007-10-27

2007-10-27T23:36:47Z

Actually I have encounted the same problems before. I use the knowledge from NT Server 4 to perform on the Windows XP Pro with the old system drive as the slave. You only have to reassign the encrypted files rights back to the system. Once the files are own by the system, create a new user and reassign all the files right to that new user. Login as that new user and you are already accessing your files!

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Comment from Josh B on 2007-10-27

2007-10-27T18:26:57Z

Judith,

He suggested she ask her boyfriend because in her letter she wrote if this involved
"programming skills" she would ask her boyfriend because he "knows about that stuff". Whether she's speaking of programming languages or normal computer tech skills who knows.

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Comment from Judith Currier on 2007-10-27

2007-10-27T12:16:36Z

"Have your boyfriend or a technician check out the Microsoft information "

My goodness Leo, I am normally not sensitive about such things, but this certainly seems to be a sexist comment. Why does one have to be male to understand Microsoft information? Is it written in a secret(male)language?

On the whole, I enjoy your site and find it informative and interesting.

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Comment from Ken B on 2007-10-26

2007-10-26T14:55:17Z

Actually, newer Linux distributions can write to NTFS. (I did so just last week.)

However, I don't see how Linux could read the encrypted filesystem. (Or is the filesystem not encrypted, and only the files themselves are? In which case, all you can do is read the raw, encrypted data from the files.) Linux can't decrypt the data without the key any more than Windows can.

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Comment from cpsulli on 2007-10-25

2007-10-25T21:24:35Z

I ran into a situation similar to this as well. My solution was to use a linux boot disk to copy the files from the encrypted drive. The only downfall was linux can read from an NTFS drive but not write to one. Not a big problem for me because my files were not that large and I was able to use a flash drive with FAT. May be a problem with this situation since the majority of the files are music and pictures!

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