Accessing Problems in Windows XP

**Astalavista** · August 23, 2004

My brother transfered some of his data from his old computer to a new computer

when he tries to access the files

it says ie picture, no preview available

and if u want to delete cannot delete file access is denied.

i think this may have something to do with the fact that he transfered

a password protected folder with a different password that he was using before.

would his problem be solved if he were to create the same username and password?

even in safe mode the files in question cannot be deleted or accessed.

**jrzycrim** · August 23, 2004

If he still has the original folder on his older computer, he should decrypt it then copy it over.

If not, I don't think there is any easy way to recover those files.

I did find this thread which relates. There is a link to EFS recovery. I'm assuming he used XP's native encryption.

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