File Access

[Bill]

After a power failure XP will not reboot using any of the
reboot options including Safe Mode. I have a OEM restore
CD so Recovery Console is not available.

My solution was to purchase a new hard drive and restore
my OEM XP onto the new drive making the old drive the
slave drive. This worked fine, except that when I try to
go into the old (slave drive) adminsistrator directory to
recover files, access is denied.

I have set up the new version with the same administator
name and password as the old but nothing that I try will
allow access to the the old directory. Everything that I
read says that as administrator, I should have complete
access to all files, which I do, with the exception of
the files that I had under the administrator name in the
Documents and Settings directory.

Any ideas on how to get access?