My documents not accessible on old hard drive

[car_designer_dam]

Ive just bought a new computer, and installed the hard drive from my old and very dead computer as a secondary running from a IDE cable.. the drive is recognised by the new machine and everything, and i can access all the folders (program files, shared documents etc) but not my My Documents, where all my work that i need is! i get a message saying F:\ducuments and settings\daniel (or somehting) is not accessible.

Any ideas why i can't access this part and what i can do to get into it?

Thanks

Dan

[Neil]

Try turning off Simple File Sharing and then re-claiming ownership of the folder in question.

1. Turn off Simple File Sharing:
   a. Click Start, and then click My Computer.
   b. On the Tools menu, click Folder Options, and then click the View tab.
   c. At the very bottom of the list, UNcheck the Use simple file sharing check box, and then click OK.

2. Right-click the folder that you want to take ownership of, and then click Properties.

3. Click the Security tab, and then click OK on the Security message, if one appears.

4. Click Advanced, and then click the Owner tab.

5. In the Name list, click your user name, Administrator if you are logged in as Administrator, or click the Administrators group.

If you want to take ownership of the contents of that folder, click to select the Replace owner on subcontainers and objects check box.

6. Click OK.

You may receive the following error message, where Folder is the name of the folder that you want to take ownership of:

"You do not have permission to read the contents of directory Folder. Do you want to replace the directory permissions with permissions granting you Full Control? All permissions will be replaced if you press Yes."

7. Click Yes.

8. Click OK, and then reapply the permissions and security settings that you want for the folder and the folder contents.

Hope this helps, good luck!

[car_designer_dam]

Thanks for all the advice! unfortunately ive had a look and i haven't got a Simple File Sharing option in the view tab of the  folder options...
Also i had a look into the properties of the drive, and i haven't got a security tab with an advanced option, all ive got is the normal sharing and security tab...
sorry about this, hope it isnt my computer being odd..
any other ideas on how i can get permission to get into it??

Thanks again

[GX1_Man]

You have to take ownership of it. See if this helps:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421