Hi, hope you all can help.

We finally got my Dh a nice HP laptop, Pavilion Dv7 the other day as his old Compaq desktop is ready to bite the dust. he took the Compaq hard drive out and put it into a acomdata 'shell'. Of course, he encrypted the HD ages ago when he got the computer incase it was ever stolen.

But we can't open files on the old hard drive now using the laptop to try and read the old drive. We can see the files names and folders, but in trying to open the files, it says we don't have access rights.

The old desktop is SITTING here STILL. Is there anyway to access the files w/out having to put the HD back into the old box. Is there anyway to un-encrypt the HD if we put it back in the old Compaq desktop?

I think that the old Compaq was using Windows 2000. New laptop is using Vista.

Many thanks!HTTP://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421&sd=techThanks for the link. I'll have to try Microsofts instructions again and play with it. The new laptop is on Vista and didn't respond to the actions I took. I still can't read the documents off the old HD. Maybe I need to read the instructions on how to do it for Windows 98 since I think that was what he was running when he encrypted the old HD.

Cheers!

Did you encrypt the drive using Windows 2000, or did you use the compaq hardware(if available), and depending on the method, eg, if you used Windows 2000, did you use some special SOFTWARE or SOMETHING that came with the computer?