i recently purchased a new harddrive for my computer but instead of using as a secondary harddrive, i wanted to just install windows to it and copy all of my saved data to the new harddrive. when i was in my days of experimenting with the ntfs file system, i encrypted (useing the built in encryption) several files.

it didn't affect my access to the files at the time and i never did infact decrypt the files (what can i say, i'm lazy)

now when i try to access the files in any way (i.e. copy, read, move) i get Access Denied

I read a story on zdnet a while back that breifely mentioned that the window xp encryption had been broken before xp was officially released.

If anybody knows how they did this, would they be able to link me to the info on how?