Folder password protected

mwalton820 · 2008/08/24

I have a laptop that the motherboard died I have pulled the hard drive and put into an USB enclosure I am trying to pull off all my saved data but when I try to go into the documents and setting folder to move them to a flash drive it tells me that the folder is protected and it won't let me get the data. How do I get the data off the old hard drive.

Thank you

Arie · 2008/08/25

You are most likely SOL. What you probably encounter is that you have encrypted folder/files.

How files are encrypted
Files are encrypted through the use of algorithms that essentially rearrange, scramble, and encode the data. A key pair is randomly generated when you encrypt your first file. This key pair is made up of a private and a public key. The key pair is used to encode and decode the encrypted files.

If the key pair is lost or damaged and you have not designated a recovery agent, and then there is no way to recover the data.

Why you must back up your certificates
Because there is no way to recover data that has been encrypted with a corrupted or missing certificate, it is critical that you back up the certificates and store them in a secure location. You can also specify a recovery agent. This agent can restore the data. The recovery agent's certificate serves a different purpose than the user's certificate.
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See: Best practices for the Encrypting File System

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