I have tried command prompt elevation, all possible switches with the xcopy command and had zero luck in copying the encrypted files (these files are highlighted in green )

After some googling, i was able to come up with a solution...the answer is robocopy and it works like a charm . This took a day's R&amp;D

The switch that does this job is /EFSRAW . It copies all encrypted files in EFS RAW mode.

Your command would be something like

robocopy source destination /COPY:DATS /MIR /EFSRAW /R:2 /W:0 /E /ETA


Note - Robocopy is not an inbuilt feature in 2003 servers. It has to be installed separately. Also certain ESI files and certificates have to be  imported to get the /EFSRAW switch to work in 2003 servers. This  is not required on 2008, Vista and w7 servers.

Getting access denied on the destination drive partition. after using xcopy
Should I just pull the plug?  Or is it best if I exit LXDE and any other running processes first?
