Drive was bootable before pulled from old system.  Was master drive in 
two-drive XP/Ubuntu dual boot PC.  But tried booting it on a Thinkcentre 
9637-Q2U and it did not.  Most of the files I want are encrypted with 
EFS, even simple ones like a frequently updated plain text file of book 
titles I want to read.

This morn' I booted off a Ubuntu-based livecd and both the drive in 
question and my system drive mounted with R/W allowed.  But same issue.  
I could read/wrtie to/from system drive but still could not open or copy 
anything from the My Documents folder (neither to livecd desktop nor 
system drive folders).

So I guess I have to find something to decrypt EFS on XP drive from Win7 
system.


Ian Carmichael





On 6/19/2011 12:18 AM, Peter Shkabara wrote:
> Does this drive bootable? If so, why not let it boot to gain access to the
> files, or at least save the encryption certificate. If you can't boot and
> the files are encrypted with MS Windows encryption, then do a Google search
> and you should find a number of utilities that can help crack the
> encryption.
>
> Peter Shkabara

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