EFS problem.

Rok,

It is not sufficient to recreate an account with he same name and password.
The name and password are not relevant in this case . It is all to do with
the encryption keys generated for the encryption process.
You need not bother trying to get reccerts it will be of no use to you
without the original files from your previous (now non existent install)

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"rok" wrote in message
om...
Hi.

No I do not have a user profile files from the original windows
installation.
Sorry, because i was not precise enough.

When I've had to install Windows XP for the second time; I've had to
erase entire MBR and then I have done an entire format of that disk,
where windows XP was installed.

But now when I've installed, still I've created exact user name and
I've entered the same password, like I've had it before.

After few years of computer experience, I think, this could not help
me with getting data back, :-)

or maybe I'm wrong.

Still I will try to get reccerts.exe and try to get something from
"it".

Thank you.

Regards,

Rok



"John Banes [MS]" wrote in message
...
If you still have your user profile files from the original windows
installation (the stuff under \documents and settings\username), and
you
still remember your password, then there's a good chance that you can
still
recovery your EFS data, even if you didn't back up your EFS certificate.
Please call Microsoft Tech Support to obtain the reccerts.exe
certificate
recovery utility.

If you decide to try this out, please post back here with your results.

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"rok" wrote in message
om...
I've encrypted some datafiles in not boot partition (e.g.: D disk;
filesystem is NTFS).

In days later my Windows XP suddenly crashed; MBR was damaged; i was
not even able to "repair" it with fixmbr and fixboot.

So I've installed WinXP once again (with lots of difficulties); and
now my question is

if I can get those encrypted data once again?

I've tried to get data in Linux to mount partition; but without
success.

Thank you.

Best...

Rok