Author: robdevloperrobdevloper
Date: Jul 30, 2008 14:59
I hate M$ for screwing me up..their Encrypted file system is a load of
cr@p.
Ok before ranting more, here's my problem:
In my scenario, there are three WinXP computers: A (desktop), B
(laptop) and C (laptop), all with NTFS
and two external hard drives, EXT1 and EXT2 both with NTFS.
Here's what happened:
1) A had some file F encrypted under NTFS, which I moved to EXT1.
Now I could read F on EXT1 without any problems when accessing it from
A
However, when I tried reading F on EXT1 when accessing from B, I got
the usual error.
So I copied the private key files to EXT1 (as described in M$ site for
recovery agent), imported the private key (PA) of A to B and then
tried reading F on EXT1 via B. It all worked fine.
So far so good.
2) Now somehow my computer A got damaged/lost. Luckily I had backed up
the private key PA to EXT1.
I could now read F via B (as I had already imported PA to B).
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