Windows 7 Unlock bitlocker encrypted files from another device

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Many years ago I encrypted my secondary harddisk with BitLocker but I also encrypted some of the files on the hard drive as well. I still remember the password so I can unlock the harddisk and access most files but somehow I'm not allowed to access some specific files which I also encrypted. It says that I don't have ownership of the files and therefore can't access them.


Someone else used the computer for some time and formated the main hard disk and upgraded to Windows 8 from windows 7 thus the loss of the windows user/ownership


Is it possible to access the files or are they lost forever?


I've managed to recover a few files from the previously installed windows folder: Users/Eivind/Appdata/Roaming/Microsoft/SystemCertificates/My/


There's 1 file in the "Certificate" folder and 2 files in the "Keys" folder.


What they all have in common is that when I open them in notepad they have the same interesting Code(I think it is a code?) which is finished with the text "Microsoft Enhanced Cryptographic Provider v1.0"


Could this code potentially help me access them?

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