extracting data from an old to new hard drive - no data appearing.

there are several (and better) ways to do this, but here is the reality: i
recently installed a new hard drive after my previous one got locked into an
endless reboot cycle. i found no solution to help with this, so i decided to
start from scratch. i installed a REAL version of xp onto my new hd to get a
way from the oem version that was installed on my old hd. so now my new hd
is doing fine, BUT i wish to take data off of my old hd and transfer it to
the new one.

i installed my old drive as a slave on my pc and tried to open it, but to
know avail. i will mention that this drive still has my oem xp o/s on it -
which is probably why it no data is visible - it is encrypted from a
different copy of xp (the oem one). and i think that this results in all my
data files mostly showing as empty. however one doc folder pops up a 'access
denied' window.

going back to the issue of my old hd locking up in a rebooting cycle, i am
aware that viruses or malware can cause this to happen. my hope was to
transfer over my data and then scan the old hd for anything that might be
causing the rebooting to happen. but this is a separate issue from the data
extraction effort i need to focus on.

any ideas how to 'de-cloak' my data from the previous hd, so i can transfer
my data to the new one?

thanks in advance for your suggestions.

Are you saying that your old drive was an encrypted drive? or only data was
encrypted. With / using what?
It doesnt matter whether win is on the drive.
In the various win folders you have to take ownership in order to copy files
(see win help)
Did you run the HD makers checking utility on this drive?

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there are several (and better) ways to do this, but here is the reality: i
recently installed a new hard drive after my previous one got locked into
an
endless reboot cycle. i found no solution to help with this, so i decided
to
start from scratch. i installed a REAL version of xp onto my new hd to get
a
way from the oem version that was installed on my old hd. so now my new
hd
is doing fine, BUT i wish to take data off of my old hd and transfer it to
the new one.

i installed my old drive as a slave on my pc and tried to open it, but to
know avail. i will mention that this drive still has my oem xp o/s on it -
which is probably why it no data is visible - it is encrypted from a
different copy of xp (the oem one). and i think that this results in all
my
data files mostly showing as empty. however one doc folder pops up a
'access
denied' window.

going back to the issue of my old hd locking up in a rebooting cycle, i am
aware that viruses or malware can cause this to happen. my hope was to
transfer over my data and then scan the old hd for anything that might be
causing the rebooting to happen. but this is a separate issue from the
data
extraction effort i need to focus on.

any ideas how to 'de-cloak' my data from the previous hd, so i can
transfer
my data to the new one?

thanks in advance for your suggestions.

maybe 'encrypted' was the wrong word...
the old drive had an oem xp installed. before it went into endless
rebootsville, i would log-in as a user as one would ordinarily do, using my
password.
now i have a NON eom xp o/s on my new drive. when i try to open up the old
drive (as a slave), all my data files appear to be empty - except for the
'access denied' window i already mentioned.

i used the word 'encrypted' to mean that my data on the old drive is
password protected in a different xp environment than the one i currently
have - even though i used the same log-on password, and my o/s still remains
xp (retail).

does that clarify? i have not run any utility. any suggestions?