I recently had to get a new hard drive and used my old one as a secondary drive. My documents folder from the old hard drive is private and I can't even get it to move onto my new drive. Since I had to reinstall Windows XP Home on the new drive, the user account I have cannot get into my old folder. The original hard drive won't run XP anymore so there's no way to sign into my old account and change the setting. Is there any way to override that security setting?

I'm having the same problem and have tried to take ownership of the file but there's no security option in the folder properties. Can someone help. I added the old hard drive to get my daughter's high school pictures and homework off of it.