Help with encryption

[Dharmendra Sant]

Thanks in advance for your assistance.
I have all my personal files encrypted on a separate hd on
my home pc. The OS(Windows XP PRO) resides with
applications on my primary drive. My primary drive died on
me so I replaced it and reinstalled XP and the
applications I have. My problem now is that it will not
let me access my encrypted files. How do I get XP to allow
me access to them.I tried making a backup of them and
restoring to a FAT 32 harddrive however it restored all my
word and tax files as zero byte files rendering them
useless.
thanks again
Mendra

[Peter Ericson]

Dharmendra Sant wrote:

> Thanks in advance for your assistance.
> I have all my personal files encrypted on a separate hd on
> my home pc. The OS(Windows XP PRO) resides with
> applications on my primary drive. My primary drive died on
> me so I replaced it and reinstalled XP and the
> applications I have. My problem now is that it will not
> let me access my encrypted files. How do I get XP to allow
> me access to them.I tried making a backup of them and
> restoring to a FAT 32 harddrive however it restored all my
> word and tax files as zero byte files rendering them
> useless.
> thanks again
> Mendra

Hello,

As far as I know, there is no way of decrypting files that were
encrypted with Windows XP's built-in encryption feature if you cannot
log in with the user who originally encrypted them. Since you now have a
new installation of XP, it won't work. Not even creating a user with the
same name as the user who encrypted the files will work. I believe that
your files are lost, unless someone else in this newsgroup has any
suggestions.

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