Encryption problem !

[Guest EUGENE]

Hi

I encrypt all my mp3 music files with Vista Ultimate. After that I re-

install Vista Ultimate again. Now I want to move, copy or play them but I

can't. I try to undo the encryption and Vista refuse. I try copy it to a cd

but it won't allow me. I try nearly ererything but I can't undo it. Can

somebody please help me.

Eugene Claassen

[Guest Bruce Chambers]

EUGENE wrote:<span style="color:blue">

> Hi

> I encrypt all my mp3 music files with Vista Ultimate. After that I re-

> install Vista Ultimate again. Now I want to move, copy or play them but

> I can't. I try to undo the encryption and Vista refuse. I try copy it to

> a cd but it won't allow me. I try nearly ererything but I can't undo it.

> Can somebody please help me.

> Eugene Claassen</span>

 

 

If your encryption certificates and keys were not backed up before

the reinstallation of the OS, and the workstation isn't part of a domain

(whose Administrator might act as the designated recovery agent), those

files are gone, for all practical purposes. Encryption works well and

there is no "back door" or hack to access the files. (Wouldn't be much

point to EFS if it were easily by-passed.)

 

 

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Bruce Chambers

 

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[Guest Brian Komar \(MVP\)]

1. did you back up the EFS encryption key?

2. See step 1

Brian

 

"EUGENE" <veldmuis58@telkomsa.net> wrote in message

news:%23BBPyuJqIHA.2292@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...<span style="color:blue">

> Hi

> I encrypt all my mp3 music files with Vista Ultimate. After that I re-

> install Vista Ultimate again. Now I want to move, copy or play them but I

> can't. I try to undo the encryption and Vista refuse. I try copy it to a

> cd but it won't allow me. I try nearly ererything but I can't undo it. Can

> somebody please help me.

> Eugene Claassen </span>