METAL Posted November 29, 2006 Share Posted November 29, 2006 Hi I'Ave resently reinstall windows (XP Pro(32)) and I was encrpted (like anidiot) a few (GB'S) of data, and now I can't use them heeelp! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue Posted November 29, 2006 Share Posted November 29, 2006 what program did you use to encrypt your data? what kind of encryption? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
METAL Posted November 29, 2006 Author Share Posted November 29, 2006 Windows just the normal one way of encription. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue Posted November 29, 2006 Share Posted November 29, 2006 im guessing you're having trouble accessing your files after your format since your files were under your old account. try taking ownership of the folders/files. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
METAL Posted November 30, 2006 Author Share Posted November 30, 2006 Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue Posted November 30, 2006 Share Posted November 30, 2006 np. you might want to look into buying a hd and using it as a slave drive (or getting an external). that way you can keep all of your files etc. on the drive and whenever you need to reformat, you dont have to worry about backing up files, copying them, etc, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
METAL Posted November 30, 2006 Author Share Posted November 30, 2006 np. you might want to look into buying a hd and using it as a slave drive (or getting an external). that way you can keep all of your files etc. on the drive and whenever you need to reformat, you dont have to worry about backing up files, copying them, etc, etc. That 's what I did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
{GD}Independent Posted November 30, 2006 Share Posted November 30, 2006 So are you all set? Because I have plenty of help if you still need it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
METAL Posted November 30, 2006 Author Share Posted November 30, 2006 Well any help would be good but now I better be off to bad to until 8 h sleep, and when I wake up will try the first advice and then will see if I need more help, I hope not, but if yes thx inadvance! I'll see in the U.S. bed up time as late as it can be CYO . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
{GD}Independent Posted November 30, 2006 Share Posted November 30, 2006 the easiest solution i know of is to convert the hard drive from the NTFS file system to the older (but in most peoples' cases, just as good) FAT32 file system. the encryption you're dealing with is not supported by FAT32 -- it just goes away on conversion, and then you could access your files from DOS or from another boot CD. let me know if you need a utility that can do that for you without destroying all your data. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
METAL Posted November 30, 2006 Author Share Posted November 30, 2006 Independent' date='Nov 30 2006, 08:50 AM' post='68863'] the easiest solution i know of is to convert the hard drive from the NTFS file system to the older (but in most peoples' cases, just as good) FAT32 file system. the encryption you're dealing with is not supported by FAT32 -- it just goes away on conversion, and then you could access your files from DOS or from another boot CD. let me know if you need a utility that can do that for you without destroying all your data. EDIT: A utility that can fix my idiotic mistake would be great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
{GD}Independent Posted December 2, 2006 Share Posted December 2, 2006 email me at pearlkr@hotmail.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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