I have XP Home, my system cashed while to install a Sata card. XP boots up
to a point then just a black screen with a mouse pointer ( it can move
around).

I have reinstalled XP home on a different partition, so now I have 3 choices
on which to boot. The first is the new XP which runs fine but I cant get my
files that I set so no one could see them with the crashed XP partition. I
can see all other files in the D drive but the ones that I had protected.

I'm still trying to boot up the crashed XP with still no success.

Any ideas on how I can get to my files?

TIA

On start-up,tap the F8 key,safe-mode,enter xp as administrator,locate the
files..Or,boot to xp cd,recovery,locate files & move them.kb307654 or
kb307973
gives details.

"noreaster" wrote:

noreaster wrote:
How to Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421

Read *carefully* - do not just skim the page and start following steps.
There is important information there dependent on the version of Windows XP.

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"noreaster" <noreaster1athotmaildotcom> wrote in message
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In order to decrypt them,You need to use the same Certificate and Private
key used to encrypt the files.
If you didn't export your Certificate and Private key to a safe place at the
time you encrypted the files, then you're outta luck, only Microsoft or Law
Enforcement can retrieve the files.

If your files weren't "protected" using Windows File Encryption, then ignore
all of the above.


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noreaster wrote:
Colon Terminus wrote:

I think the original post makes your last statement true...

They stated, in the original posting, "I have XP Home ..." and "I have
reinstalled XP home ..." <- given that information, they cannot utilize the
Encrypted File System feature as it is not available to Windows Xp Home
users. ;-)

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Thank you so very much!
I didn't know if I could get to my files again.
Next time I'll have to explain my problem in more detail.


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I'll need some to work with this, hopefully I can get the crashed XP running
fully. It crashes between the windows logo and where you can sign in.

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