Access Denied

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From: Marsha (Marsha_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/27/04 

Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 15:10:01 -0700

The motherboard went out on my old computer. Before I was aware of this, I thought I had a windows problem and tried to reinstall XP over itself withoug wiping out the hard drive. I could never make it through a complete install. I bought a new computer and am trying to use the hard drive out of my old computer as a second hard drive in the new computer as I had no backups of data and do not want to lose everything on the drive. However, everything is in My Documents and when I try to access My Documents on the second drive, I can not get in as it says Access Denied. I also tried using it as the master drive, finish the windows upgrade on it, but that does not work either. Is there a way I can get permission to access the My Documents on the second hard drive?