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Thanks! So I must boot from the old disk? It is likely not to work, the old OS will wake up in completely new HW. Perhaps there's a way to avoid that?
– Uri Cohen
Commented Feb 5, 2011 at 14:13
It should work. The old disk will just discover "new" hardware and will do its best to install the corresponding necessary driver (there's no fundamental difference if you had "added" new hw one by one to your old pc. All indispensable hw devices (screen, kbd, bridges, disks) are likely to be discovered, identified and installed without problems.
– Alain Pannetier
Commented Feb 5, 2011 at 14:19
Sorry, I mis understood what you meant by having full access to the machine. I am not aware / never tried an offline recovery of the key files, but there must be a way. Just found this page - you may want to read... beginningtoseethelight.org/efsrecovery
– William Hilsum
Commented Feb 5, 2011 at 14:21
@Alain Pannetier - Unless a Sysprep /genralise was done, it is unlikely to work if any critical hardware component has changed.
– William Hilsum
Commented Feb 5, 2011 at 14:22
We're saying the same thing. I had to do it at least twice and all major HW components were recognised (disks, cds, usb, kbd, screens basic interfaces being really standard). Of course they were a number of question marks in the device manager explorer. That's largely enough to boot and export the encryption key.
– Alain Pannetier
Commented Feb 5, 2011 at 14:45

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