I had an old Compaq desktop that just died on me, and I'm pretty sure it was the motherboard. Seeing at though this monster is 6 years old now I went out and got me a laptop. Now I want to extract some of my data off the old hard drive.

I took it out and hooked it up to my friend's computer, but I can't access my documents folder because I encrypted it with Windows. No spectacular encryption, just the basic stuff XP offers.

Is there any program or command I can use to decrypt it so I can get my files off it? I tried using cipher.exe but I'm either not using it right or it isn't doing the trick.

I'd appreciate any help, because I've got about 5 years worth of pictures on it.

Thanks

2/9/2007 5:04:11 PM

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421


tried that?

2/9/2007 5:06:08 PM

no I haven't yet, so i'll check it out thanks.


This shouldn't delete the data in the folder though right?

2/9/2007 5:11:07 PM

No. It will give you rights to access it's contents.

2/9/2007 5:11:50 PM

sweeeeeeeet, dude you're awesome


thanks!

2/9/2007 5:27:28 PM

*yawn*


np.

2/9/2007 5:33:41 PM