Reading encrypted files in Win2k CSC folder

PLease somebody enlighten me on what to do here.

I have a HD from a Win2K machine which crashed. I have all the data apart from the cached files from a network it was attached to . These files reside in reside in WINNT/CSC, a hidden sys folder.

I am now on a XP machine with access to this drive (running as slave).


Question: How can I read DECRYPTED these many many hundreds of important files? :O

Malco

 

I don't think you have to do this, because the CSC files have a copy which resides in your Server.

 

It was actually a very simple peer2peer network and the PC I was networked to that held the original files died a long time ago. It was for this reason that I continued to use and update the cached files :|

Malco

 

The files can be made accessible with some effort.

Method 1: Attempt an Extract

Obtain the CSCCMD utility. Since you are using XP, obtain this from the Server 2003 Resource Kit

Discussion: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;884739
Download Source: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...69-57ff-4ae7-96ee-b18c4790cffd&displaylang=en

Method #2: Try to recreate the Cache environment

To begin with, both Win2k and XP expect the CSC folder to be on the boot volume as a hidden, system folder. You cannot recover the data until you recreate this setting.

Second, you then have to move all the cache pointers. Microsoft has a utility to do so, which I already discussed above.

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Thank you. It was very straight forward: Recreate the environment of offline cached files, which I did by creating a simple ICS with another PC and enabling file sharing. Then I simply dumped the contents of C:\WINDOWS\CSC containing files I would like to read into the newly created CSC folder overwriting anything that was there. Click on my shortcut to the offline cache and heh presto...

And crikey! Even programs I had in there still run!

Still, Im interested in method 1, since I feel Ive cheated some how ;-)

Happy!

Malco

 

Good job.

Next time, use the CCSCMD command to move the logical pointers to the new server before you break everything up.