EFS Woes

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Matt

Hi there. I have a bit of a conundrum for you all!

Yesterday I re-installed Windows 2000 on my notebook. I
have two partitions on my hdd; one of which holds my
personal files and data, and the other which is for the OS
and prog files. I have kept the data partition untouched
through several rebuilds with no problems.

I re-intstated my user account with the same username and
password after the install. I then pointed the My
Documents shortcut to a folder on the data drive where all
my docs are located. If it makes any difference I have
also re-named the admin account.

I can no longer access these files and suspect that I may
have encrypted them some time ago and forgotten about
it...darn transparent access!

Is there a workaround for this? Software that can help me?

Thanks for your time.
Matt
 
Microsoft Product Support Services can help walk you through methods to
recover if you have the contents of the old profile and know the username
and password of the old account.

http://support.microsoft.com for contact information
 
Thanks for that David.

I will give it a shot with MS Support.

Regards,
Matt
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Microsoft Product Support Services can help walk you through methods to
recover if you have the contents of the old profile and know the username
and password of the old account.

http://support.microsoft.com for contact information

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http://support.microsoft.com

Hi there. I have a bit of a conundrum for you all!

Yesterday I re-installed Windows 2000 on my notebook. I
have two partitions on my hdd; one of which holds my
personal files and data, and the other which is for the OS
and prog files. I have kept the data partition untouched
through several rebuilds with no problems.

I re-intstated my user account with the same username and
password after the install. I then pointed the My
Documents shortcut to a folder on the data drive where all
my docs are located. If it makes any difference I have
also re-named the admin account.

I can no longer access these files and suspect that I may
have encrypted them some time ago and forgotten about
it...darn transparent access!

Is there a workaround for this? Software that can help me?

Thanks for your time.
Matt
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