Can't boot to xfr EFS files

I shut down the desktop in my sig one night, everything normal. Next morning at bootup, 90 seconds after power up when the XP desktop normally loads, I hear an abnormal "click" and get the error message
c000021a Fatal System Error at 0xC0000005 (0x00000000, etc) Shut Down to prevent damage...
The BIOS displays correctly and is accessible, and the XP loading screen displays just like normal until the fatal error occurs.

Trying to boot into Safe Mode gives the same error.

Swapped the GPU, didn't fix it. Swapped RAM didn't fix it. The WD hard drive shows normal activity and seems to be working fine.

So I thimk to myself "Ok, my mobo MCP fan (southbridge) stopped working the other day. I replaced it with a Zalman heatsink, but it probably caused damage even though the computer has been working for two weeks. "

I put a new mobo in but get the same error. It still won't boot into Safe Mode. All the voltages from the 520-watt power supply are within specs.

Ran Recovery Console off the XP CD far enough to run CHKDSK /P then CHKDSK /R and results were "This volume contains unrecoverable problems ".

Ran FIXMBR, FIXBOOT, BOOTCFG /REBUILD but told something like "Failed: Cannot scan, file system is corrupt ".

But then ran CHKDSK /R again and said ". . . 100%, No errors found, 57.2GB available. . . "

Tried to Bootup XP again, but got a ". . . Problem Detected, Shut Down, Page_Fault_In_Nonpaged_Area "
Stop 0x00000050

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So Ok, no big deal I'll put in a new hard drive, install XP, and restore my backup off the external drive. "

I put in a new bigger 'n better HDD, XP installed like it should, and I went to transfer files from the backup. The backup would not restore! It's a My Book external hard drive that I use Karen's Replicator on for backups. I had "looked" at the files on the backup Ok through Explorer, but lazily had not checked if it would actually restore files to the computer.

Now it's a Big Deal. I need to get the My Documents folder and Outlook Express files off of the original hard drive. I hooked up a IDE/SATA-to-USB adapter to the old hard drive, plug it in and boot up on the new drive normally.

Using Windows Explorer I go into the old hard drive and everything looks good. But when I try to copy files from the old drive to the new drive, I get a "Cannot Access File" because it is encrypted and does not recognize me as the original Administrator.

I did not save a copy of the Windows EFS encryption key, doh. Is there a way that I can recover these files or am I SOL?

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I followed KB308421 and KB307874 to take ownership of several of the encrypted folders and files on the old hard drive. It seemed to be working by displaying my Administrator name, allowing an "Add" and Full Permission check box. But after Applyings and OKs the folders and files still denied access.

I also tried Defining a New Security Template (Run > mmc) but that did not free up the EFS encrypted files on the old hard drive either.

Under Security > Owner > Permissions tab, there is an account alpha/numeric character string:

" S-X-5-XX-122XXXXXX1-17XXXXXX68-7XXXXXX3-1XX3 " (the X's are mine)

Can I can use that somehow to access the files?

It not, then SOL it is for copying the EFS files from one hard drive to another.

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So Back to trying to get the old hard drive to boot up into Windows XP Pro. I can't get into Safe Mode, but can use Recovery Console off the CD.

The hardware is working fine on the newly installed hard drive and XP Pro (SP3), I'm online with it now, and I can access the old hard drive via Explorer. Trying to boot the Old hard drive gives the errors of

c000021a Fatal System Error at 0xC0000005 (0x00000000, etc) Shut Down to prevent damage...
or
Stop 0x00000050 Page_Fault_In_Nonpaged_Area

Hitting F8 and "Use last good configuration" does not work.


The old hard drive has been scanned with Kaspersky, Trend Micro housecall, SuperAntiSpyware, Adaware Pro and Avast, nothing important was detected, just tracking cookies.

How can I get the old drive to boot without losing my documents and photos?

I could mail it to a data-recovery company, but I encrypted the files for a reason.

Any help from you pros is appreciated, and a help-me-fix-it thankyou of $100 will be sent via PayPal or method of your choice
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No joy booting XP on the old hard drive, after 3 weeks of trying innumerable KB's and forum helps.

Restored a 3 month old backup.

Bought Acronis 11