Opening An Encrypted File From Old Computer
Oct 26, 2009
I am trying to access an encrypted folder, which is on the hdd of my broken laptop. The hdd is now connected to another computer. I cant open the folder, the message is access is denied.Presumably the key information that is needed is on the hdd somewhere? The laptop was running windows xp media centre 2005,The computer with which i am trying to access the file is running xp professional.
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Apr 12, 2007
I have recently reformatted my C drive and have now got windows XP pro and most of programs reinstalled, but I have encountered a very distressing problem; I have an Excel file that contains all of my user names and passwords for web sites, programs, hosting services� everything.But since I have reformatted and restored my programs and data I can no longer open this file. Actually I encrypted and entire folder containing this file and several other QuickBooks files. So I guess I really need to be able to access the entire unencrypted folder.The problem seems to be that I did not register my computer with the same name when I reinstalled windows and now I�m locked out of this previously encrypted folder, and, consequently this vitally important file!Can somebody please help me find a way to open this file.
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so i was not sure what i was doing when i was messing around with encrypting files,I have my external hard drive and encrypted around a dozen video files, then my copy of windows xp crashed due to a virus, i lost the previous version of xp due to reformatting, however i would like to access the video files again on my external hard drvie. I do not also remember the password from my previous copy of xp also.
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