Retrieving data from an encrypted laptop hard drive

tlarkin said:
Microsoft's version of POSIX NTFS Permissions is not the same thing as encryption. If you make a home folder private, ie no one can view it but the owner, you can modify the permission at the file system level to remedy this.

If it is actually encrypted you need the encryption passkey, otherwise it will just not work. If you were simply able to just decrypt anything with local admin access, how would that even be a valid security measure? I suggest you download and read the NSA security PDF on securing Windows servers and systems. There is a lot of good information about file system encryption in there.
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Exactly and in rudyard case is exactly the NTFS permissions that isnt allowing it to move the files to CDs or put them in USB storages (and thats what he as been complaining isnt it?)..
He only got something like read and write with no other special NTFS permissions...
 
The OP never claimed anything other than he lost his password for his encrypted file system. If the OP was in error, and meant that his home folder had been made private via MS POSIX perms for NTFS, then he never declared that. He just stated encryption, and with out a recovery agent, or a recovery account, or the passkey, you are not getting that data.

Hi,

I have a works laptop with all my files stored on the hard drive. The laptop was encrypted by my work a few months ago. I want to retrieve my files on to another storage device, however it appears that the encryption is preventing me from using any sort of usb storage device and/or burning cds.

Does anyone know a way that I can retrieve my files from the hard drive of the laptop? (This is legit by the way- all the files are mine!)

Cheers,
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There has been 5 pages of useless squabble on this thread....

Now, most likely, and I am assuming here, his work enabled bit locker, which encrypts the file system of the home folder only. You are required to create bit locker keys to copy data to other forms of storage outside your home folder, ie a usb thumb drive or a CD. This is because it needs the encryption key copied with it, so it can actually read the data it is copying.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/What-is-a-BitLocker-recovery-key

So, in theory, and I don't use bit-locker, you would need the key to be on any device you want to authorize to copy encrypted data from your home folder. Permissions have zilch to do with this. Unless the OP comes back and clarifies differently.
 
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rudyard said:
Hi,

I have a works laptop with all my files stored on the hard drive. The laptop was encrypted by my work a few months ago. I want to retrieve my files on to another storage device, however it appears that the encryption is preventing me from using any sort of usb storage device and/or burning cds.

Does anyone know a way that I can retrieve my files from the hard drive of the laptop? (This is legit by the way- all the files are mine!)

Cheers,

R
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And i think that i just a found the solution:Try to copy the files
to a external HDD formatted in NTFS (that should do it,because it will move the NTFS permissions along to the new drive (execpt for sharing permission of course..)
Your problem so far,i believe was that you were trying to copy it to a USB Pen (formatted in FAT32??) and for a CD (CDFS)
 
canivari said:
And i think that i just a found the solution:Try to copy the files
to a external HDD formatted in NTFS (that should do it,because it will move the NTFS permissions along to the new drive (execpt for sharing permission of course..)
Your problem so far,i believe was that you were trying to copy it to a USB Pen (formatted in FAT32??) and for a CD (CDFS)
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*sigh*

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Tlarkin think a little:
why would the Guys from IT encrypte the files with EFS with a Administrator account??
Everything is around NTFS permissions here..
 
In that way rudyard couldnt work them in is Laptop would he?
He just need to make a backup of is own files that are probably Offline files from the server that have atached to them NTFS permissions..
 
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