[Forensics] How to acquire EFS protected files without exporting certificates?

Microsoft Encrypted File System (EFS) is used to encrypt files on Windows. It's a file-level encryption, usually files in user profiles are being encrypted. It's a big challenge when I received a Windows with EFS enabled for data acquisition. I did many researches on forensic tools or cracking tools before I tried to acquire the data. However, the steps are time-consuming and ineffective. Here is an interesting method; hopefully it saves your day.

Microsoft EFS is only effective to files on NTFS file system but FAT32. What we need to do is to connect a new FAT32 formatted hard drive. Running Robocopy to copy all files to FAT32. All EFS encrypted files will be in decrypted state. Done! Kindly image the file by FTK Imager.