Old Hard Drive Encrypted Files: Migrate Old Profile/keys To New?
May 23, 2007
I have 2000 some encrypted pictures on hard drive x.(windows xp)Hard drive x is now a slave drive on another computer. I have complete access to hard drive x, but cannot migrate my old profile/keys over to the new computer to decrypt the files.Is there any way to do this short of going back in time and not doing it to begin with?hard drive x gives the stop error when i try to boot with it and the new computer is running windows xp also
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Mar 19, 2010
I'm having a problem with installing service pack 2 and can't seem to fix it.I formatted my hard drive last night and installed Windows XP Professional. I then downloaded SP2 and started to install it, the install gets as far as "Updating the Registry Keys" and then it just sits there... It doesn't crash, doesn't start not responding or anything like that, it just sits there and does nothing. Last night i left it sitting for 3 hours and it still hadn't done anything, this morning it's been sitting for about 55 minutes and still nothing.Any thoughts on what could be wrong?
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Aug 2, 2009
I have two internal hard drives and one external for backups. Right now, Win XP is running on the C: drive, of course, and the F: drive is empty. Here's what I want to do:Load XP onto the F: drive. Gradually install all my applications on that drive and get them up and running -- using C: in the meantime for applications that I can't install twice on the same computer, such as Photoshop. Then turn off or remove the C: drive so the computer will recognize (and rename?) the former F: drive as the new C: drive when it boots. My main question is: What sorts of problems will this cause for programs installed on the second drive? I assume that any shortcuts would have to be re-pointed. Aside from busywork like that, what might go wrong? Is it feasible to do what I describe?
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Dec 10, 2006
A SATA-II 250GB hard disk that I want to use to replace my C-Drive (10GB) and D-Drive (20GB),
But My C-Drive (Windows), when I boot how will I partition the new drive, make one ACTIVE and somehow LOAD the ghosted C-drive backup (can I put it on multiple DVDs and make them bootable or something?)
What would be the best way to "backup" these drives? Ghosting? Can this work with such LARGE drives as it would take multiple DVDs?
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Oct 18, 2009
I recently helped someone save the documents off of their computer after it crashed (it was missing a Windows file. I tried the repair command and it wouldn't work, so I decided to save the files and reformat the hard drive).I plugged the hard drive into a working computer and pulled all the documents off of it (VERY slowly) onto an external hard drive.
Every once in awhile I wouldn't be able to pull a picture or document off because of a cyclic redundancy check error. I just moved on and saved what I could. I assumed it was because the hard drive was already bad so I just moved what I could.
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Mar 5, 2010
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Aug 5, 2010
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I can see the old hard drive in the E drive and it appears that all the contents are there by the size of the hard drive (same as when I had it in the old laptop) but I can only see, actually view, a very small percentage of the drive.
My goal: I want to transfer all old music, word documents and photos from old laptop into new laptop.
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May 27, 2007
I moved some EFS encrypted files to my new PC, but can't open them there. I've been using NTbackup, so the encryption is preserved, and all I get is "access denied" when trying to open them.What is the easiest way of decrypting them? I tried exporting the user certificate from the old pc using CIPHER /X, importing it to the new pc, but that didn't help. So how do I go about to decrypt these files? As it is nearly 50gigs of data and a slow network, I'd rather not decrypt the files and transfer them again.
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Jun 18, 2006
I want to set a password for the Guest account on my XP Home Edition computer but one of the instructions state not to do so if the Guest account has any encrypted files. However, I don't know how to find that out out. Can someone tell me how to do so?
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Jan 20, 2010
i encrypted a few files unknowingly, and then they were moved to the server is there any way i can get them back to my pc and then unencrypt them.
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Aug 13, 2006
I have just finished completing the installation of a new computer system. Along with a complete overhaul (see signature for specs) I have installed a new SATA hard disk with Windows XP MCE 2005 to boot , and the existing hard disk (which has a non bootable version of windows on it) is plugged in as "spare storage". However I have some valuable pictures on the old hard disk which have been ecrypted for security and under the new installation I cannot access these files at all. I cannot even copy the files to the SATA drive as it claims Access is denied. Going into the properties of the files does nothing as again...access is denied. I would have gone into the existing windows installation had it not screwed up and decrypted the files before copying them over but unfortunatey I didn't know my motherboard and Windows installation was going to fail
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Jan 9, 2009
I have user who created a few ecrypted MS Office docs on the home drive. Instead of using the encrypted folder, the user ecrypted the individual files. The user is unable to do anything with those encrypted files. Copy, move, unencrypte none of them works. The user is running Win XP SP2 and the file server is WS2003 R2 SP1.
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Apr 21, 2007
i get "access denied" when i try to open any encrypted files created before the restart and incomplete system restore.xp has created or recreated my admin account with the same name/password (new valid from date). is this why i can't access the files now?under encrypted file/properties/advanced/details/add option xp reports "CA Root certificate not trusted, install in Trusted Root Certification Authorities". is this a related problem?
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Dec 29, 2007
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Sep 28, 2005
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Jul 25, 2005
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Nov 14, 2007
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Jan 2, 2009
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I cant delete them, they say they are locked. I have also downloaded unlocker 1.8.7 and it wasn't able to delete the files either. I have run system mechanics, prevx malware, kaspersky nitvirus program and didn't find anything wrong. The haven't caused any problems that I know of except I wasn't able to format my d: drive.
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Apr 30, 2006
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Jan 16, 2008
A friend of mine's hard drive was damaged so I replaced it and installed Windows XP on the new Hard drive. This was fine and no problem. In an effort to salvage some of his files from damaged hard drive I connected it as slave and windows recognised it with out a problem. Now the tricky bit! I was able to access "My Documents" on the old HD but when I tried to open his folder(for his profile) I got an "Access denied" message. He then told me that he had a password on his previous windows profile. Since Windows is not booting from this HD and I don't have an option to enter a password, is there a way to access this folder?
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Jan 5, 2006
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Sep 24, 2006
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Dec 22, 2006
In my my new computer i only saved the hdd and the rest of the old computer was sent to my brother and now when i try to install the old hard disk with everything else new computer is not booting. I bought a new and bigger sata hard drive and installed a fresh windows xp and not able to retrieve my old files with message access is denied.
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Nov 19, 2006
Last night I connected a friend's HDD to my PC so he could back-up some files onto my PC before he formatted his.He did that,and then insisted that he needed to format it ASAP,so he did so using my cables.So I turn my PC on later I find that most of the contents of my desktop are missing,and that several Apps are as well.I look in C:Documents and Settings and notice a new profile called "TEMP" alongside my normal profile with many of My Documents and personal settings for apps. For some reason, my PC loads up this TEMP profile only now, as opposed to my normal one.
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Feb 7, 2008
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I logged into my limited account and I tested it on the programs I used the most and in fact it worked wonderful, that is until I used it on a particular program called 2xExplorer. This program is like Windows Explorer on steroids. I've used this great program for a couple of years now and never had a problem. I added the "/prefetch:1" command to my 2xExplorer shortcut and when I launched the program it worked fine.
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Oct 13, 2010
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Apr 21, 2006
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Apr 16, 2007
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Oct 15, 2007
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