Help me plz

recently formatted my c drive only.. now not able to access encrypted files on my d drive...running w2k adv server before and now. tried to take owner ship not allowing. plz help me. thnx in advance

 

I don't know exactly how to help you, but I can give you a good place to start looking for information. Here are the Microsoft Knowledge Base articles I found that might help you. All of them apply to Windows 2000 Advanced Server.

Methods for Recovering Encrypted Data Files

"Access Is Denied" Error Message Appears When Permissions Are Correct

Recovery of Encrypted Files on a Server

Cannot Open Encrypted Files on a Computer with Multiple Windows 2000 Installations

How To Disable/Enable EFS on a Stand-Alone Windows 2000-Based Computer

Using Efsinfo.exe to determine information about encrypted files

Best practices for the Encrypting File System

The Local Administrator Is Not Always the Default Encrypting File System Recovery Agent

HOW TO: Use Ntbackup to Recover an Encrypted File or Folder in Windows 2000

 

thnx for the links..wil chk em out..thnx again.

 

the links did not help ...thnx for the effort...anyone else has any more ideas....grateful.

 

if you didn't back up your key your out of luck.

check out this thread:

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=34&threadid=1144400&enterthread=y