Help accessing files on old passworded Win XP hard drive

[RMK305]

Hi,

The motherboard of my PC died and as a result ended up getting a whole new machine. I had a backup of most of my files but there was stuff that was not backed up in time before it died. I have conected the drive up to the new machine and it recognised it just fine. However, as the files were under a passworded user account for logging in to XP I am unable to oper the folder to view and copy them over. I get a message telling me that the folder is not accessable and that access is denied.

I tried boting the HD from the new machine but as it's setup for another motherboard it doesn't go very far.

How do I get round this to view and copy my data?

Thanks,

Robert

[RMK305]

Damn. I have the Home edition and there isn't that option.

Any other ideas?

[RMK305]

I managed to access it, thanks. Transferred the access rights over after loggin in under safe mode.