charliemass

Many thanks for this - will try when i get home tonight and let you know how i get on. charlie

This is probably something really simple as the recovery software doesnt even acknowlege that the files are encrypted, which i guess technically they are not, i just dont have user rights to them as they where password protected in a user account that no longer exists and isnt recognised by my new windows install. so like i say, inside of AEFSDR it doesnt seem to notice a problem and when i search for encrypted files returns nothing and happy lets me browse through the files i cant get at through windows explorer as though nothing was wrong with them. charlie

This is probably something really simple as the recovery software doesnt even acknowlege that the files are encrypted, which i guess technically they are not, i just dont have user rights to them as they where password protected in a user account that no longer exists and isnt recognised by my new windows install. so like i say, inside of AEFSDR it doesnt seem to notice a problem and when i search for encrypted files returns nothing and happy lets me browse through the files i cant get at through windows explorer as though nothing was wrong with them. charlie

I know this comes up alot as i guess there are a lot of us dummies out there - but have recently updated my motherboard and processor and thus reinstalled windows XP over my previous installation forgetting that my old login was password protected. now i can browse to my "my documents" folder, I can see the folders though cant click into them (access denied) and using Advanced EFS Data recovery I can see into the folders but this doesnt let me do anything with them (a select all, copy and then paste to somewhere else would have been handy here). I know this question must get pretty tedious, but if anyone could help out it would be *very* much appreciated. Charlie