Long story short, while trying to convert my external SSD from exFAT to NTFS, I messed something up and ended up corrupting a folder full of EFS-encrypted files. I can see the files, but accessing them under Windows gives me an error (Make sure a disk is in the drive you specified). However, using Linux, I can access the files, however they are in PFILE format. If I try copying the PFILE files to Windows, it doesn’t see them as encrypted and thus doesn’t give the option to decrypt them. Is there any way to decrypt them, or am I screwed?
Edit: I discovered that when creating or moving an encrypted file to an exFAT drive, the file has a PFILE extension (visible only under Linux). However, on an NTFS drive, the file has its normal extension (under Windows and Linux). However, that shouldn’t affect the decryption, since I was able to decrypt other files from the same exFAT drive successfully.
