Hi can someone help me i have encrypted folder with song in it on my drive D: and i forgot that its encrypted and i reinstaled the windows on drive C: and now i cant play the song in that FILE can someone help me how to take ownership of the folder so i can play the song?If you reinstalled Windows that file would be gone unless it's on another drive/partition...

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However if the file is in fact encrypted this may not work at all.I'm guessing Neogeomk used a program to Encrypt it, meaning you need a PASSWORD to open that file and you need that specific program to open it.
Now because he formatted drive C, he lost the program and he needs a way to get into the folder.

My advice to you, Neogeomk would be to try and find the program you encrypted with.
It might help if you post the type of file the folder is if it has one. (E.G. file.txt <--that part)You might not be able to RECOVER it without the password. But, for what its worth, the topic "Take Ownership Of A Folder In XP" is on a number of sites, including Microsoft. You can find them in a GOOGLE or Yahoo search. Or just go to the MSN site.
Anyway, the information there does not tell you how to unravel an encrypt done by a third-party program. Too hard to do. That is what it means to encrypt a file Quote from: dslgeek on May 26, 2007, 09:23:20 AM

You might not be able to recover it without the password. But, for what its worth, the topic "Take Ownership Of A Folder In XP" is on a number of sites, including Microsoft. You can find them in a Google or Yahoo search. Or just go to the MSN site.
Anyway, the information there does not tell you how to unravel an encrypt done by a third-party program. Too hard to do. That is what it means to encrypt a file