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 accessing a password-protected hd
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Hello everyone.
My brother sent me his hard drive becuase his motherboard crapped out and he needs the data from his hard drive. I plugged it into my computer through an IDE connection and i can see most of the files on the computer. However, the data he needs resides within his "documents and settings" folder, and since it was password protected, i get "Access is Denied" when i try to access it. I know the username and password required for access so I shared out the entire hard drive and tried using the following from the command prompt:
net use "share name" "password" /user:"username"
It said that the command completed successfully but i still wasnt able to access his docs and settings folder. Does anyone know of a way to get his files since i know his username and password?
ASKED: Oct 24, 2006  7:03 PM GMT
UPDATED: May 24, 2010  7:46:10 PM GMT
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agacat
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Did you try creating him as a user on your computer with that particular password and then logging in as him? The problem is that the encryption is done with a certificate that was on the original computer. If the drive you have also contains the system drive, check out the following from MSDN to attempt to recover the certificate:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/smallbusiness/topics/cryptographyetc/protect_data_efs.mspx#E3LAE
Last Wiki Answer Submitted:  Oct 24, 2006  8:58 PM (GMT)  by  agacat   0 pts.
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An easy solution is to take ownership of the files and folders.
Instructions to do so:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421/en-us

Dreamscape
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Log on as the local administrator, take ownership, access file

Yager
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