Re: can't copy encrypted files

Thanks Dave (if I may),

I've been thinking that slaving the HD to the other machine as you suggest
might be the only solution left, unless a miracle happens and I somehow
manage to log on.

I did manage a miraculous logon yesterday after manually replacing my
registry files with recovery backups and an interrupted 10 hour chkdsk scan,
during which I was able to decrypt a good number of files, but that ugly BSOD
came back to haunt me again and won't let me back in. I think my HD might be
dying.

Oh well, maybe I'll just sacrifice those last files to the evil blue XP
demon and format the HD hoping its not a hardware failure...



"David H. Lipman" wrote:

From: "arkein" <arkein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

| Hello,

| Is there any way to copy or decrypt encrypted files if I've got the
| encryption key and can access the HD contents but I'm not the designated
| decryption agent and can't log on to the account that owns the encrypted
| files?

| I can't log on to windows in normal or safe mode because of a corrupt boot
| volume. running chkdsk, fixboot and fixmbr in the recovery console did not
| fix the problem, so no way to log in to my account.

| I can access my hard disk contents by running ubuntu live cd. I have even
| set up a network between the faulty machine running ubuntu, as server, and
| another machine running XP. But I can't access or copy the encrypted files
| either in ubuntu or through the network from the client machine running XP. I
| get an access denied message.

| I've tried taking ownership of the files from the client, but access is
| still denied. I've tried backing the files up to the client using the windows
| backup application from the client, but access is still denied.

| I can't run the cipher command to decrypt the files since I can't log on to
| my account even in safe mode with command prompt. The blue screen of death
| gets me first. I can only log on with my password using recovery console, but
| for some stupid reason, recovery console does not allow cipher commands...

| the irony is that I have the encryption certificate backed up in the client
| machine!

| All I want to do is copy my encrypted files over to the client machine and
| decrypt themthere using my key.

| Any suggestions?

| Thanks in advance.
| arkein

Here is my suggestion...

Put the drive in a USB enclosure that is either USB to SATA or USB to IDE [depending on
the hard disk type].

Have the user who owns the Encryption Certificate logon to the replacement PC making sure
that that user is using the same Encryption Certificate that was used to encrypt the
files.

Connect the drive enclosure, with the affected hard disk, to the USB port of the
repacement PC and through the user's account transfer the files over to that user's
profile.

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp



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