Reasons for Data Not Displaying on Damaged Laptop Drive
Question
A technician is attempting to recover data from a damaged laptop that was running Windows 10
The technician removes the drive and places it in a known-good computer.
The computer boots and sees the drive, but no data is displayed.
Which of the following is the reason the technician is experiencing this issue?
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The reason the technician is experiencing this issue is likely due to EFS (Encrypting File System) security.
EFS is a built-in encryption feature in Windows that allows users to encrypt files and folders on their system. When EFS is enabled, files and folders are encrypted using a public key encryption system, which means that they can only be decrypted by the user who encrypted them or someone with the proper key.
If the laptop's hard drive was encrypted using EFS, the files on the drive would not be accessible when the drive is removed and placed in another computer. This is because the encryption key used to encrypt the files is stored on the laptop's motherboard, which is not present in the new computer. Without the key, the files cannot be decrypted and are essentially lost.
The other answer choices (exFAT, Ext3, HFS, and CDFS) are all file systems and not related to encryption or security features in Windows. Therefore, they are unlikely to be the reason for the issue described in the question.
