Please Help-Win 2K encrypted file on Win XP cant open

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After hours of installing all my programs and setting up
my new computer...major roadblock. My old computer has
Windows 2K Pro, my new computer Win XP Home. I took my
old HD and placed in my new computer, windows xp shows
many of those folders as encrypted(green). I thought as
an administrator I would have total access to anything on
the new computer....obviously wrong. What do I need to
do?

Thank you,

LO
 
After hours of installing all my programs and setting up
my new computer...major roadblock. My old computer has
Windows 2K Pro, my new computer Win XP Home. I took my
old HD and placed in my new computer, windows xp shows
many of those folders as encrypted(green). I thought as
an administrator I would have total access to anything on
the new computer....obviously wrong. What do I need to
do?

Thank you,

LO
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Win XP Pro, as Win XP Home doesn't support the encryption that 2k used for
encrypted files/folders.

JT
 
I believe that XP Home does not support EFS encryption. You need to put that hard
drive back into your W2K computer where they were encrypted and decrypt them before
you can gain access to them on your new computer. Also FYI, your private EFS
decryption key resides in your user profile and is accessible [for export, deletion]
via the mmc certificate snapin for machine. You can only decrypt those files when
your associated EFS private key [or the recovery agent key used at the time of
encryption] is on the computer [via import] you are trying to decrypt them on in a
user profile with the same name/password as the machine it was exported from. That is
one way the integrity of EFS file encryption is maintained. --- Steve

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;223316
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;255742
 
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